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@aral I see tones of Threads's posts under #Pixelfed hashtag. Seems Meta is not muting them at all?

@spla @aral its a bit more complex than a search term - they make it algorithmically difficult to find posts and have them presented to you.

For example, I like men and cats, the more posts I like that fall in this category I get more of that in my feed.

Muting can be full, as in you can't find anything or flooding your timeline with anything but, thus killing any potential traffic from people who maybe interested in the topic.

As Aral said, it's an opaque box

@spla @aral I have a theory, and it has been backed up by a few others. Most instances have already blocked meta from federating with them - it is this that is causing these issues...

@aral "Federation" my butt...

@aral making it hard to find infos on a competing product? That has be illegal ... #meta #pixelfed #fediverse #threads

@aral Website boy doesn't like pixelfed either, I guess?

@aral @catsalad
Facebook itself has been blocking links to Mastodon for quite some time, so not really surprising.

@aral Just a little misunderstanding between besties, for sure.

A bug, a mistake, some bad intern writing bad code, a communist sabotage of a match made in heavens.

Bah. Things are simply going according to plan. Their plan, of course.

@aral
That is surprising. Not that they are doing it, but that they are doing it this early.

Threads was supposed to be them pretending to be friendly with the fediverse, and they've barely started convincing people of that.

@aral
Thv problem with corporate social media is not that they are necessarily evil, though some are, but that their allegiance is not to their customers but their share price and if evil earns more money they will choose evil.

@aral Another tactic of the well-worn "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy. We really should be better at countering this by now. #mastodon #fediverse #meta #facebook #pixelfed

@aral i still visit facebook about once a month to check on family. A friend of mine posted a screenshot from Mastodon and I commented that it was really cool that were using it. They friend PM'd me to ask me more about how to use it and then suddenly my messages stopped getting thru.

@aral I mean haven't we been here already?
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10285-facebook-censored-me-for-mentioning-open-source-social-network-mastodon

@aral I highly doubt that Meta is willingly banning mentions of Pixelfed, it does not make any sense at all. I am curious of what is happening here, but why would they even care? There is probably a explanation here that does not involve a conspiracy.
And also we (Mastodon) have some discussions with Meta (and other implementors do as well), this does not mean we are "besties" or have any insights on what they do (or that they have any influence on us)
@briankrebs

@aral I fail to see what any of this has to do with Gargron or Mastodon unless you're just shit-stirring for clicks.

@aral sounds like the kind of friends who take your lunch money

@aral He's also been busily god-modding to eliminate civilly-expressed opinions against the Gaza genocide, and those who express them. Whether you (the reader of this post) agree with the people who expressed those opinions or not… remember that he's portraying Mastodon as an alternative to censored corporate social media, and not for sale.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. (And for my money, view any new "updates" he pushes down the pipeline with suspicion.)

@aral

Competing Services are Censored. #NoNews

Just Like on X & #Meta

Choose wisely with your logins.

Too bad big bad Meta is afraid of #news URLs. Oh well. No Advertising Here so