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Apparently Meta is afraid of Pixelfed. Clearly, @dansup is doing something right. Can't imagine a bigger compliment.
"CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #metablockingpixelfed"
h/t @ajsadauskas
Maybe tech media should pick this up. Seems like a good story!
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Screenshot of bsky post...
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And some confirmation here:
Rich Felker
@mastodonmigration @dansup @ajsadauskas Start spinning up obfuscated redirector domains for folks to use.
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German media now has the story...
Thanks to @ajsadauskas here is a first example of German media picking up the story of Meta blocking links to Pixelfed:
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/113820189442440223
link to article: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unprecedented-growth-Facebook-blocks-links-to-Instagram-alternative-Pixelfed-10237928.html
Will update if and when there is any US tech media story, but don't hold you breath.
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Cool!
@404mediaco now has the story of how Meta is blocking links to Pixelfed!
https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Just posted this on my feed and it was posted with no problems.
It says spam, most likely this poster posted this same message in 20+ different groups and got flagged for spam. Probably has absolutely nothing to do with Pixelfed.
AJ Sadauskas
@freemo @mastodonmigration @dansup I can personally confirm thst "this user" — i.e. me — only attempted to post it once.
As a regular Facebook post.
I've documented what happened in greater depth elsewhere.
But basically there was another user who posted that they had tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook and were blocked.
To verify their claim, I tried writing a simple post on my newsfeed asking "Anyone here use Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed dot social.
My last interaction on the site was in July 2024, so definitely no spamming in terms of volume.
Within 3 seconds, I got an automated response.
Jason Koebler from 404 Media tried the same thing, and got the same result: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
A number of other tech news sites, including Engadget, began running the story: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-admits-it-deleted-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed-194624098.html
At this point, Meta acknowledged it had been blocking links to Pixelfed "by mistake". It no longer seems to be doing it 😊
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Thanks for the additional info. Was it to a group or on your own feed? Maybe it was the group admins then that flagged it?
AJ Sadauskas
@freemo @mastodonmigration @dansup To my own feed.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Ok, then yea sounds like it was just the FB mistake and had momentarily set it as a spam keyword.
Good to know it wasnt intentional on their part at least.
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