Yeah defederate everything facebook then.
https://mastodon.online/@DrPen@mastodon.social/113819854078612789
This seems more likely to be an automated spam filter that kills short messages with links in them.
Are you referring to this bit?
update: Tried again, this time it worked, writing a longer post and putting the words in apostrophes.
Putting the words in apostrophes may’ve worked as it prevents pixelfed.social from being linked to. It must be then the URL, not the “pixelfed” keyword, that is being blocked.
Someone else reported that if they posted it with a picture that was fine, and I think someone else said if they posted it in a longer message, that also worked.
Ah makes sense, thanks for the clarification! I’d pin this if I could.
You could edit the post, because right now its just misinformation.
That would be really weird, since if I recall correctly meta funds fediverse projects, I think including Pixelfed. I think they’ve even run an event to help devs, maybe multiple.
Dansup the creator of pixelfed has talked about it and is generally a little more comfortable with meta than I can fully get on board with
(regardless of having generally engaged positively with the Fediverse as far as I’ve seen, they still facilitated genocide, enabled mass misinformation campaigns, exploited people’s privacy, etc.)
Edit: from other comments it sounds like this is just a spam filter for short posts with links, and doesn’t get blocked if the post is longer and/or has an image 🤷♂️
they’re scared, as they should
