ICYMI: Elon Musk’s Twitter banned Mastodon’s official account and is blocking links to many major Mastodon servers.
Twitter also appears to be blocking tweets linking to many major Mastodon servers; tweets to many Mastodon links result in an error message stating, “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.
” The link ban followed a chaotic Thursday night where many prominent journalists were abruptlyMastodon, a fast-growing decentralized social network that aims to recreate Twitter’s best parts while nixing its mammoth-sized issues, has increasingly been touted as the go-to alternative to Twitter. Since taking over Twitter in a
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