Facebook and Instagram BAN Pixelfed links

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Not true. It was most likely a spam filter. Images and longer messages work fine.

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Thank you for bringing this up

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Can't have competition now, can we? That would lead to innovation. (and the gold-plated dinner table set missing on the new yacht)

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Didn't this also happen on Reddit when people were posting the alternatives? Links/posts got removed, the subreddit about alternatives got shut down

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Facebook has always been removing posts and comments containing links to Fediverse. At least they did a couple of years ago. But it doesn't happen all the time, so there is some kind decision making algorithm.

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But what if you just shared the link in "captcha" style so the ai doesn't detect it?

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Bots are already better than humans at solving Captchas, that probably won't work

https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350

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There are ways around it, like link shorteners and so forth, but the main point is that Meta is afraid.

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Didn't get banned, but they marked the post as spam. That was 3 days ago. Maybe they're blocking now as well.

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My instagram profile says that I have moved to Pixelfed and has a link to my Pixelfed profile. It has been up for over a year.

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