看到 Paul Graham 這個宣告：
This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.https://t.co/bbmZ4yvAJH
— Paul Graham (@paulg) December 18, 2022
裡面提到的新政策在「Promotion of alternative social platforms policy」這邊，直接禁止其他社交平台：
At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:
- Prohibited platforms:
- Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr
- 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio
在 Hacker News 的討論上面，Paul Graham 有回應 (帳號是 pg)，他又提出了一些猜測與見解，包含了他覺得這個新政策會被收回：「Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now (twitter.com/paulg)」。
I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives.
I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out to be. He's eccentric, definitely, but that should be news to no one. Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. Those two facts are sufficient to explain most of his behavior.
He could still salvage the situation. He's the sort of person it would be a big mistake to write off. And I hope he does. I would be delighted to go back to using Twitter regularly.
不過的確如他說的，這是個好機會嘗試其他的 social network...