Just posted this on my feed and it was posted with no problems.

It says spam, most likely this poster posted this same message in 20+ different groups and got flagged for spam. Probably has absolutely nothing to do with Pixelfed.

@dansup @ajsadauskas

@freemo I can personally confirm thst "this user" — i.e. me — only attempted to post it once.

As a regular Facebook post.

I've documented what happened in greater depth elsewhere.

But basically there was another user who posted that they had tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook and were blocked.

To verify their claim, I tried writing a simple post on my newsfeed asking "Anyone here use Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed dot social.

My last interaction on the site was in July 2024, so definitely no spamming in terms of volume.

Within 3 seconds, I got an automated response.

Jason Koebler from 404 Media tried the same thing, and got the same result: 404media.co/meta-is-blocking-l…

A number of other tech news sites, including Engadget, began running the story: engadget.com/social-media/meta…

At this point, Meta acknowledged it had been blocking links to Pixelfed "by mistake". It no longer seems to be doing it 😊

Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed

Meta accidentally deleted links to Instagram-competitor Pixelfed on Facebook, which is at least a little suspicious coming after Meta's recent moderation...

^{Ian Carlos Campbell (Engadget)}

Thanks for the additional info. Was it to a group or on your own feed? Maybe it was the group admins then that flagged it?

@mastodonmigration @dansup

Ok, then yea sounds like it was just the FB mistake and had momentarily set it as a spam keyword.

Good to know it wasnt intentional on their part at least.

@mastodonmigration @dansup