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1mo ago

Facebook was blocking Distrowatch

www.theregister.com /2025/01/28/facebook_blocks_distrowatch/

Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.

Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/

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They're trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta's servers.
- I have a suspicion that this isn't even about culture or revenue anymore. It's about control.
  
  Bingo!
  
  The mew type of capitalism 🙂 even worse
  
  When you got most of the money and assets... There is really only one thing left to acquire
  
  Always has been.
  
  Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let's them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They're just doing it more now that they definitely won't face any repercussions.
  They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.

"Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn't mean we respect it."
- linux for me not for thee

I quit FB years ago because it's such a garbage website. In the meantime IG has just gotten worse and worse and worse... Zuck would be king of enshittification if his websites weren't shit from the start.
- And network effect people will keep using IG.

They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro
- As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I've since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.
  Either that or some Linux wizard cast the "every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one" curse on me.
  
  I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn't (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.
  
  The only distro I haven't had that happen on was gentoo because the thought of reinstalling it makes me go "actually this is fine"

No wonder why WhatsApp isn't on Linux.
- I have no clue how people trust whatsapp
  
  i still need it for friends,family and stuff
- You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.
  
  Sounds like a cool app.
  
  First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?
- It really comes down to what platforms they have with government backdoors & data sharing. If they know the government might not be able to access "encrypted" data then they'd rather suck the balls of government than create it anyway. Look at what happened to the Telegram CEO when he created the encryption & told the government to fuck off.

The paranoia in me wants to think that this an effort to make people forget that there are, in fact, a whole lot of people capable and willing to audit any kind of open source project at any scale. Like a new AI or similar...

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