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Banning all links to Mastodon? That's just censoring the competition. Lots of people have been leaving Twitter for Mastodon, so silencing that might be a welcome side effect of widely overshooting his elonjet ban.

>>mcv+(OP)
"Lots" might be an overstatement, in relativity at least.

The peak of the Mastodon migration was mid November, reportedly around 400k per week. This sounds like a lot, however a) many have moved back to Twitter due to it not being what they expected and b) Twitter has over 300m monthly active users.

>>mcv+(OP)
Funnily this is what Freenode was doing for Libera mentions.

>>TheHap+f9
It's still a lot. Mastodon has grown enormously. If Twitter keeps burning and Mastodon can handle the influx (the latter is the bigger 'if' here), that it may continue to grow.

>>mcv+AA
It's entirely possible (although I personally think it unlikely).

Regardless, < 1% is not a lot of Twitter users by pretty much any stretch. I think people in tech or fringe communities are seeing a high uptake in their own groups and assuming that to be reflective of Twitter users at large.