Someone brought to my attention that there is a Twitter account impersonating the Mastodon project. This is a fake account: https://twitter.com/MastodonTM
- We don't do the business of selling blue or green checkmarks
- We don't have "office hours"
- We don't collect donations on behalf of disasters (unless you consider me a disaster)
- I would know how to spell Houston for god's sake
- We never use Twitter's logo in branding or illustrations. Fluffy elephant sitting on the bird is a photoshop in bad taste. We are competing with centralization, not one single specific company
- For that matter, I would never use graphics that are that low res
I also really don't use Twitter that much. I actually see 0 reason to use a Twitter account for Mastodon. However, there is one "official" one, and it is: https://twitter.com/MastodonProject
@CobaltVelvet Wrong on so many levels! Mastodon is not a US project. To tag it with Texas feels like American imperialism.
@gargron yes but, even ignoring all the ways in which it is factually wrong, it looks like it was written by an american fascist boasting about Texas
@CobaltVelvet @Gargron Attribution could be difficult. Pointing out that it is a fraud should be sufficient.
@sillystring @gargron yes of course it's a feeling, i'm not saying nazis are squatting mastodon on twitter
@Gargron @CobaltVelvet I'm gonna go and guess they're trying to squat ~trending~ topics to get people to send them money for their dodgy shit like "verification" and "donations"
@gargron @CobaltVelvet Even us Americans throw up in our mouth a little bit when we see something tagged with Texas.
Sorry, Texans. But your state sucks.
@Gargron Hrm. Twitter hasn't given you a green checkmark or banned the impersonator. Big surprise.
@gargron "complete freedom of speech! #Huston #Texas" oh this feels so wrong