Now I'm wondering if any other instances were blocked without any transparency. This is unacceptable and I'll be moving instances immediately.

@meow Granted, I'm not mad it was suspended, but there's no transparency at all that this action was taken (so I could follow again on Twitter or move to RSS feeds or something) without me searching the long list.

@meow Hey, when are y'all going to start notifying us when you block servers? I was using bird.makeup to follow a couple people from Twitter with their approval and there was no notice at all that this was suspended?

@tanzureir GDPR applies to European data regardless of where they are currently physically located (just have to live in a GDPR territory)

@tanzureir @johnnygear Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought an opt-out is required by California privacy law and GDPR anyway?

@tanzureir @johnnygear I fundamentally disagree that this should be opt-in. Twitter as a website is not opt-in in any way, and they farm your data as-is, plus you're not harming a server host to scrap data like you would with Mastodon.

It should however, be opt-out, and the response they gave you is abhorrent IMO

@roswell I agree in some sense, but I'm mixed on the free. Nothing is free. Either you pay with your data (which can be used to do things like destabilize democracy) or you pay for the service upkeep as a thing.

Tempted to start watching #Succession. How is it?

@FlatFootFox IFTTT, I figure they're probably paying for the API anyway and I'm paying $2 for Pro a month anyway

@KatSteelwing :blobcatknife:

@Spextherat If you did that, you'd have to post about today's Twitter furry drama, then tomorrow's, and so on and so on because I swear it never ends on there :blobcatknife:

stop being furries celebs. stop. you have everything else in this world. please. let us have one thing

it is with a heavy heart that i announce the celebs are becoming furries now

@cargo Never mind, I'm dumb and saw the alt-text. (Thank you adding that BTW)

@cargo Wait, what? Is that Lady Gaga wearing a facial prosthetic?

@coffeespots As someone that worked in a restaurant years ago, people don't even make their selection or know what they want until they get to ordering, even if they've been there multiple times and nothing has changed.

Still trying to wrap my head around the statement of quote boosts being a bad idea when people are already using images or links to quote posts as is. I always clicked through a lot of QRTs on Birdsite to see comments on the original post or to actually like the original post, maybe even QRT it myself.

Alright, there we go. Now that crossposting is a bit more stable, I'm not gonna crosspost from Birdsite to here, but should be set up to crosspost to there so those that barely touch social media (and don't wanna hop on here for whatever odd reason I guess) can still get my posts.