We know that Elon doesn't like Twitter competitors. It's why most of us joined Nostr back in December, after Elon banned linking to your Nostr profiles ๐คฃ
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I mean I was getting such a bad Twitter/X experience without the verification, that I paid for a month of testing. So far, is much better.
Definitely they are also indirectly forcing people to pay and verify or leave
I have 100% been seeing this play out .. every time I get more active mentioning/promoting nostr over there, I become a ghost
Do you think it makes any difference to write it as n0str? Or the algos can easily read that?
Not surprised tho, it was last Dec when Elon threatened to suppress accounts mentioning other social media, and included nostr in the list, that I first heard about it and immediately came here! ๐
It is difficult to tell from that code diff if X-Twitter is blocking #nostr, since
1. "nostr" is not a url
2. there are many nostr urls
They blocked Mastodon urls so they could block nostr ones too of course.
I did find blue to give quite a few interesting benefits and on the whole it improved since Musk took over, but I did get throttled 3 times even while paying for Blue...