It wouldn’t surprise me but it’s not like Pixelfed competes with IG in the narcissistic-influencers-posting-every-second way. Pixelfed is basically a federated version of what IG was, before influencers started posting their whole lives there.
Seems to me the most likely explanation is they got caught and fixed it.
I agree. There’s also just no reason to give Meta the benefit of the doubt here. Bug or not they’ve done nothing to earn such a charitable response from anyone.
I have to feel like Meta gives absolutely zero fucks and is completely unthreatened by PixelFed. PF has ~21k active users and Facebook alone has ~3 Billion.
Seems far more likely that this is just the result of exactly the kind of garbage automated moderation one should expect from Meta than any sort of suppression of “competition”. What would they gain from that, other than exactly this type of negative publicity?
Not only is PixelFed not a competitor in terms of users, but the dev is desperate to cooperate and welcome Meta to the Fediverse. So it doesn’t represent any kind of threat for the company’s goals, at least at the moment.
See how quick he was in defending meta after they came with the bug excuse and how quickly he’s adding threads to the fediverse datebase to the point that the clone of Zuckerberg’s account that cannot even fully interact yet is called “the most popular fediverse account”
Its true. I mean its possible, but with facebook involved? I feel a mistake is way more unlikely
with facebook involved? I feel a mistake is way more unlikely
Really, you don’t feel (correctly) open evil is the most probably scenario when zuck’s involved?
What kind of bug blocks mention of competitor?
They’ve demonstrated that they have a global blacklist of terms, and that some competing services are on it. It could have been an accident (though I’m not sure how), but it certainly wasn’t a bug. The blacklist is clearly working just fine.
The article suggested it was a bug, not me. My use of it was only in reference to the article so it’s not a point I’m going to defend.
I didn’t say otherwise, and I didn’t ask you to defend anything. Sometimes, one just continues a discussion or talking point.
Betteridge’s law?
I would love to see a list of anything like so that facebook/“meta”/"thread"s, google, X or the rest get caught blocking like so. Be enough for me to start using just about anything on the list, and recruiting my friends and family to do the same.