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Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon (changelog.complete.org)
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Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and open social network, which is decentralized and all about user control instead of corporate control. I’ve blogged about Mastodon and the dangers of Facebook before, but rarely mentioned Mastodon on Facebook itself.

Today, I received this notice that Facebook had censored my post about Mastodon

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[–] LinuxBey@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Mb it because FB cannot dig any data from in mastodon instances.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yes. Those 2.2 million people out of 4.2 billion they're not currently engaging with must be really eating at them! They're probably tossing and turning at night that literally 1/2000th or so of their as yet unsubscribed populace can't be dug out yet.

🙄

The fediverse needs to get over itself. It is not a major player yet. It isn't even a minor player yet. It barely qualifies as the fringe of a fringe player.

And, note, I say this as a user of four fediverse services (and not a user of Facebook nor Twitter)!

Mastodon is not a threat to Facebook or Twitter. Yet. Pixelfed is not a threat to Instagram. Yet. Lemmy is not a threat to Reddit. Yet.

Could they become? Possibly. (I personally don't think so, but freely admit that I could be wrong about this.) But they are not even on the radar of the big guys yet.