🐲​​Friday ACAB🐉 @dragonmagic@computerfairi.es

Tips for new artists here:

Use hashtags! This is how your posts can be sought out from other instances too. Hashtags can also be followed, just like following accounts! Very useful for having stuff pop into your timeline that you're interested in.

Use alt-text! Prior to the twitter migration, most images had descriptions for the visually impaired, (also useful for bad internet). Let's try to keep this place accessible. Some people won't boost images without it!

#feditips #mastotips

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

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