On the plus side, large servers banning bird.makeup gives people an incentive to move to smaller servers, and thus keeping the fediverse decentralized.

@vincent I was curious about this. I had used your service on this instance & suddenly had the connections broken when the admin decided to ban it.
Is there a technical reason to do so (large data set, slow federation, etc.) or is it just antithetical to the idea of mastodon?
I found it useful for following local news & kept me from visiting the bird site.

@brothercasas
Same here. I think I'll move to a different instance, much better than actually going to Twitter.

But what really bothers me is that it just got black-holed one day, no explanation, no warning. Not cool. And I am a Patreon supporter of mstdn.social. :-(

@vincent

@brothercasas @vincent I think its more related to not wanting people to drag in Twitter posts into the Fedi-verse. Some admins and users are very much against these type of bridges. I honestly think they are a useful bridge for certain accounts, especially commercial accounts and news accounts...

@vincent I run my own instance. I'm not blocking bird.makeup anytime soon. Its been a useful bridge for some people and services still on the bird-site...

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