The official account of Mastodon, one of the most popular destinations for people looking for a different kind of communication, has been suspended. You can see that the account has been suspended by visiting the profile.

The account was banned out of spite for a rival platform, but we don't know why. It could have been because Mastodon was talking about Elon Jet.

Sometime on Thursday, the Mastodon suspension occurred. The Wayback Machine has an archive of the active profile from 1PM to 6PM, but an archive from 6PM to 1PM. There is a post on the archive of the active profile.

A new policy against sharing live location information was put in place on Wednesday. It appears that a link to the Mastodon account is a violation of the policy.

The company that dissolved its press office didn't respond to a request for comment. Mastodon didn't reply to a request for comment.