With Twitter, it's been demonstrated that what Musk does, does not follow what Musk says. There's nothing to reconcile here. The new policy is very clear and leaves no wiggle room for the occasional link.
Much like when Elon said he wouldn't ban Sweeney and that he's a free speech absolutionist, followed by him:
- banning Sweeney without justification
- unbanning some of Sweeney's accounts
- banning linking to Sweeney's other social media
- putting links to any mastodon instances behind a warning
- rolling out new policy to justify banning Sweeney and links to his other social media
- walking back the permabanns after a bunch of journalists get roped up in the Elonjet fallout
- this new policy, presumably to justify the continued banning of Sweeney. You can put other reasoning here, like making it harder to migrate off Twitter. Other commentors mentioned in previous discussions that linking your mastodon in your profile allowed mastodon users to more easily find/recreate their Twitter network automatically.
Much like when Elon said he wouldn't ban Sweeney and that he's a free speech absolutionist, followed by him:
- banning Sweeney without justification
- unbanning some of Sweeney's accounts
- banning linking to Sweeney's other social media
- putting links to any mastodon instances behind a warning
- rolling out new policy to justify banning Sweeney and links to his other social media
- walking back the permabanns after a bunch of journalists get roped up in the Elonjet fallout
- this new policy, presumably to justify the continued banning of Sweeney. You can put other reasoning here, like making it harder to migrate off Twitter. Other commentors mentioned in previous discussions that linking your mastodon in your profile allowed mastodon users to more easily find/recreate their Twitter network automatically.