Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
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Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

This is seems on par for Meta. With FB and Instagram being such monoliths, could we be seeing the early stages of their collapse? I wonder how much more it will take for the everyday user to become disenchanted with Meta to drop their platforms.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    We don’t need to lie about it; not even by omission.

    In the best case scenario, Meta is employing an automated moderation system, it’s incorrectly tagging what users share as “spam”, and can’t be arsed to fix the issue in due time - note that this was already attested at least September 2024. That’s more than enough to blame Meta.

    Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this.

    I see quite a few reasons to not trust = be gullible towards what Meta says. Starting by the fact that it’s on its best interests to silence mentions to competitors.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Well, there isn’t really a way around automated filtering. Spammers and malicious actors also send their stuff in bulk. And those big tech companies already have human content moderators. Usually in some poorer countries and it’s a horrible job. I suppose there just arent enough humans to also deal with the flood of spam, manually.

      These systems are far from perfect. And I’m not really an expert. I don’t use Meta’s platforms. I can’t tell much from that screenshot. It’s missing the URL and it hints at some rule that might be shown below.

      And I didn’t want to say “trust Meta”. Quite the opposite. I just think this one specific claim could be true. Not everything is a conspiracy theory. We know they have automated spamfilters. And we know these make a lot of mistakes. Very similar with what other spamfilters do with short URLs. I’d say the simplest explanation is: their spamfilter sucks. Not that they somehow conspired, wrote additional software to deliberately target Pixelfed instances, but just when it’s a short post… No. I think in this instance it’s the simple explanation. But yeah, gwnerally: Don’t trust and of the big tech companies. They don’t act in your interest at all.