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It has come to my attention that sending Mastodon links via text message are being filtered by either T-Mobile or Verizon.... Specifically, at least in this case, links to infosec.exchange ... I shared something with my family in a group SMS last night and no one received it. Today I'm with members of my family and have confirmed that any message with a infosec.exchange link does not go through but all messages without the link do - this involves messages of JUST the URL and ones with text and the URL. I also tried SMS to just my nephew with the URL and it disappeared into the void as well.
I use T-Mobile and the entirety of my family uses Verizon. I have not been able to test to another T-Mobile customer as of yet. I will test with other instance links in a bit.
Sent the link to my sister via Signal and had her post the link to the same SMS group and the URL made it to everyone so Verizon to Verizon and Verizon to T-Mobile gets through but T-Mobile to Verizon does not.
@bobkmertz @Mastodon odd. We use Verizon and they seem to get through just fine
@jerry
Just saw this. I just added a reply.... It does seem that Verizon to Verizon and Verizon to T-Mobile works but T-Mobile to Verizon does not. Other links seem to. I am wondering if it's TLD related. Been looking for a family friendly post on an instance with a standard TLD to try but just now realizing I don't think I follow anyone on such an instance 
@Mastodon
@bobkmertz @jerry @Mastodon I don’t know what TLD so I cants confirm whether FRZ uses it—let’s ask @tek: if it does, I’m pretty sure he’ll be willing to help you.
@bougiewonderland
TLD means top level domain.... This is the .com part of domain names. As I dug deeper into this it seems that it isn't a Mastodon thing but affects any website that uses a domain outside of the normal com, net, org, gov, etc TLDs.... Since nearly all Mastodon instances are using nonstandard TLDs it masqueraded as filtering mastodon but isn't actually the case.... Mastodon is just getting caught up in something stupid T-Mobile is doing.
In short, this affects many websites. I don't know if it was temporary, something with my account, or if it's just a stupid T-Mobile policy (though it does CLEARLY show that T-Mobile is reading SMS messages and reacting based on content.
@jerry @Mastodon @tek
@bobkmertz @jerry @Mastodon @tek Seems to me like questions to T-Mobile are in order