That must be a hard life assuming things are working against you
But assuming everything is of that nature is what I am against.
"sounds plausible" goes in the "objective evidence" pile and nobody follows up to see if they were correct.
What is a hypothesis here? That twitter thought they could block Mastodon and no one in the world would notice? That no one would care?
Let's kill it, board said.
Competitors have no obligation to play nicely. Is it really a surprise they don’t?
Yes, better be gullible all the time instead and trust all these corporations...
Speaking from experience: 1. size of mastodon is such a small thing that i doubt twitter even worries about it, among other things they have to worry about - like monetization. 2. My guess is integrity system incorrectly marked a url or link crawler/preview/whatever service is failing to crawl the page, or something along those lines. It can be something else, but my overarching claim is that it was not someone going into admin UI and typing mastodon to block them explicitly to cut the competition out. It may still be a lowly paid employee incorrectly doing something, but it's not for cutting the competition out and very very likely an honest mistake.
That is genocides, in 2022. The idea that a social media company is out to crush competitors and make money is really not that far out there, and certainly not an idea that can be reasonably mocked. These companies are going the way of the more corporate news organizations - they've got influence, they want to be political actors. They are not trustworthy.
What of it? Are you actually so naive to think things aren't working against us?