Facebook was blocking Distrowatch
Facebook was blocking 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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Cue people spouting: "But muh marketplace!" "But muh friend from highschool I haven't spoken to in a decade!" "But muh extended family I barely even know exist!"
Any excuse to keep hitting that crack pipe.
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"Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn't mean we respect it."
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linux for me not for thee
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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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They're trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta's servers.
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I have a suspicion that this isn't even about culture or revenue anymore. It's about control.
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Always has been.
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Bingo!
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The mew type of capitalism 🙂 even worse
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When you got most of the money and assets... There is really only one thing left to acquire
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They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro
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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.
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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.
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And network effect people will keep using IG.
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No wonder why WhatsApp isn't on Linux.
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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.
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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.
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