Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

We've got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It cleanly didn't block this post.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes. Because this post is not on twitter. It's on a site called lemmy.world. I don't think it even looks like twitter?

    If you want no mention of twitter or the musky chodelet, I recommend Connect, a Lemmy app for Android. It features a keyword block list, so you can add as many twitter related keywords as you need.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    I thought that's more what the original comment was asking for, maybe I misinterpreted. Ps. Sorry for wasting your time explaining things I already know by not clarifying my sarcasm, but you helped someone else so it worked out alright.

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