Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”

Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”

  • @LockheedTheDragon
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    23 hours ago

    Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?

    • @HootinNHollerin
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      21 hour ago

      I think [email protected] can be used for this purpose even though it’s currently just to complain about them. That would be a better utilization

    • r00ty
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      53 hours ago

      Not lemmy (unless it does support it now?). But from a (k/m)bin instance you can access the mastadon account @elonjet which does the same as the original twitter elonjet.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        Any client that can interpret Mastodon data can access it. I don’t believe Lemmy yet has the ability to follow individual users in that way.