Meta seems to be blocking the link pixelfadeAccording to the duo, Facebook, a decentralized photo-sharing platform User on BlueSky And 404 media, A small group of posts that are linked to “pixelfed.social” was removed, with Facebook’s “Community Standards on Spam” used as justification.
When asked to comment, a Meta spokesperson said that removing the posts was a mistake and that they would be reinstated.
Pixelfed runs on the ActivityPub protocol and is part of the broader “Fediverse” of decentralized posting platforms. It works just like Instagram in terms of giving you the ability to share, like, and comment on images, but because it’s on ActivityPub, your posts can be visible in other apps or Photos if you prefer. Can be ported to completely different formats on sharing. Meta is slowly adopting parts of ActivityPub into Threads, making it possible to post to Threads and Mastodon At the same timeFor example.
The timing of these deletions is enough to make anyone suspicious. meta just announced quite dramatic changes How it plans to control speech on its platforms. The company decided last week to end its third-party fact checking program and change its hateful conduct policy. The company’s lax standards now allow speech that would be defined as hateful under any normal circumstances, based on what wired Was able to dig.
It’s not unreasonable to imagine that users might consider jumping to an alternative like PixelFade in response, and the platform did just that. share saturday that it was “seeing unprecedented levels of traffic on pixelfed.social.” It is not unreasonable to imagine that the new right-wing meta could pre-empt its competitors, just like x did With links to Mastodon and Substack.
