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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
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this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Back when I was on Twitter (a couple of years ago now), all links to Mastodon were explicitly marked as "unsafe", and posts containing such links were demoted. So it's apparently kind of normal for these social media companies to attempt to choke new competition as early as possible.