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So Meta/Threads/some people are claiming that any mention of #PixelFed being muted was a bug.

And I don't doubt that software made by corporations is buggy, I've had my fair of experiences with Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other big name websites and services to understand it's often spaghetti on fire.

But it's just *odd* that the bug only impacted:
- A known competitor to Facebook/Meta
- Did not impact other posts of a similar nature
- Only impacted a service that doesn't happen to have the funds for a legal team
- Only was patched after public notice

And while Halon's Razor says "Never attribute malice what can be explained with incompetence", looking at the history of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from the biggest tech companies, I think that razor has gotten rusty.

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