Hey folks! Chitter has been subject to censoring on the bird website, so I've set up a domain redirect if you wish to share links to Chitter on the bird site. Please do not use obvious keywords with links that use this domain otherwise it will also likely get censored.

http://ringtail.site

the domain itself does not use https so please only use http if you wish to post a redirect.

this is also not a permanent domain, it's only temporary and I will not be renewing it after it expires since domains are expensive after the first year.

Update on this: it seems twitter is actually pulling metadata from links then using that to determine whether it is a mastodon instance then later flagging the addresses. If you have linked a mastodon instance on a public account (I cannot confirm if this also counts for private accounts) it will most certainly get added to the blacklist. There is nothing I can do about this unless I set up a redirect that bounces to another middleman URL that strips the metadata.

either way, ringtail dot site is now also flagged on twitter and cannot be used, which happened very quickly so I can only assume it is an automated scraping process.

@Violet awoo is still allowed

@noiob awoo is running glitch though

@Violet it responds to the standard mastodon api calls

@noiob I guess it depends what's being scraped?