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I saw a poll like this last week, but I thought it would be cool to do it again with another major migration underway. Boost so we can get a better sampling.

#twittermigration #poll

so I finally got some sleep and just woke up, how are we doing in this (checks notes) 3rd wave? 4th wave?

@tillianisafox ya context clues made me think it was something fear based, but the dictionary seems to think it's something related to shame or appetite? ? ? :thinkhappy:

@tillianisafox ...I didn't know that either, I had been using it like that as well and I only know American English 😳

Report back from Twitter filter fuzzing.

What Twitter is blocking

  • Twitter is filtering links to known Mastodon instances, but still allows direct links to joinmastodon.org. The filtering seems to happen whenever Twitter's WSYWIG editor recognizes a valid domain name and that domain happens to be a known Mastodon instance.
  • Twitter also allows linking to shortened URLs of mastodon profiles, but only once. Posting the shortened URL a second time doesn't work, implying there's some backend queue service that's checking the Location header of links and flagging the ones redirecting to Mastodon instances.

How to evade the filters

  • Email address spam evasion techniques work. Replacing '.' with ' . ' or [.] or [dot] all work.
  • URI encoding the hostname. Replace at least one of the characters in the hostname with the URI encoded version (ex: https://infosec.exchange -> https://infosec%2Eexchange). Browsers are smart enough to URI decode anything you copy/paste into the address bar.
  • data: URIs. Twitter does not seem to check base64 encoded data: URIs. It is possible to create a data:text/html;base64,... base64 encoded HTML URI which can be copied into the address bar and will render as HTML. While Twitter will not render data: URIs (for obvious reasons), you can still copy/paste them (at your own risk, of course).
  • Base64. This seems silly, but we could communicate freely on Twitter by simply Base64 encoding our tweets.

Twitter's anti-Mastodon filtering is clown shoes amateur hour.🤡​
#twitter #birbsite #censorship #filtering #evasion #elmo #muskrat

already it looks like I was mislead about the dates and what they actually meant...

a great start

thought all nighters were just for college projects/papers? hah,

or if 00:01 am today (Friday Dec 16th) the cut off I have to figure out how much trouble I'm in 💦

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in other news, I've put off finding new health insurance until the very last possible moment and now I have to stay awake until I *do* find new insurance or I might be in a huge heap of trouble

you know shit's getting serious in YGO when Yami Yugi shouts in a duel,

"I'm not done yet!!!"

@LizbethMorningstar that's a valid point, but my oldest account is 14 years old (I think?)

I made it when I was in high school, and if it's possible I'd like to preserve it as a sort of time capsule of my late teens + 20's

PSA for for pretty much everyone, even those who aren’t new - there is another mass migration underway. Meaning lots of accounts are being created on instances all across the fediverse, and the people behind those accounts are exploring, introducing themselves, and so on. Some instances handle this load better than others.

PLEASE NOTE: while you can migrate an account to a new instance and your followers will move with you, however doing so during times like this may cause that to not work correctly.

Please be patient with instances that are have trouble keeping up. They will get it under control. We are all doing the best we can. Most all instances are funded by donations from members. If you are able, look at your instance’s /about page and consider donating.

@LizbethMorningstar I'm on birdsite until I can make a carrd (or something similar) for my newest account and download an archive of my oldest account

after that it should be pretty easy for me to not use birdsite

Made in solidarity with the #ForestDefenders in #Atlanta.

Fuck the cops and their plan to deforest to make way for “urban warfare” training. Replacing city green space with murder training grounds is fascist as fuck.

#StopCopCity #DefendTheAtlantaForest #antifa

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