Facebook has given me a community standards violation for posting about Movetodon back in November. So much overreach.
@jperlow "Overreach"? That's like McDonalds asking you to leave when you bring in a Burger King meal and sit down in their restaurant to eat. Like, I see why it upsets you, but from their standpoint, it makes perfect sense; not doing so would be negligent.
Plus, it's nice that they're doing it so transparently. Imagine if all mastodon content was just quietly never shown to anyone?
@jperlow Crossposting wasn't what you described in your original post. It's a tool specifically designed to help people abandon centralized social media in favor of decentralized, which is a threat to their business model (whereas crossposting tends to be a boon to their bottom line).
And that's before you get to the security concerns:
You described a tool that "logs into your account" which is a common attack vector for phishing scams. If you were more precise with your words (i.e. "Movetodon needs authorization to you account to access it through the Twitter API"), then maybe it wouldn't have been flagged.
@LouisIngenthron But community standards violations have nothing to do with threatening business models, and there is nothing in the previous CS verbiage that says this is violating content. They made this up, recently.
@jperlow Lol, community standards are *entirely* about protecting the business model. Some just work on a longer timescale than others.
As for your second statement, it's blatantly false. It took me 5 seconds to look this up: As of June 2022, they had the following language in their Community Standards defining a banned cybersecurity practice: "Creating, sharing or hosting malicious software including browser extensions and mobile applications, on or off the platform that put our users or products and services at risk."
You unquestionably shared software that they feel puts their product at risk. You may not consider it malicious, but they may see that differently.
@LouisIngenthron @jperlow using *any other* social media is against their business model.
So yes they should be flagging mention of any other non FB product...like Twitter
@pixelpusher220 Not necessarily, no. They understand that people use different social networks for different purposes. Twitter and Facebook is a two-way street, with people using both networks for different reasons. Allowing people to cross-post keeps them from walling themselves in a different garden.
OTOH, Mastodon seems to be much more of a 1-way migration. Not a lot of folks choosing Mastodon as their first social network then moving over to Facebook or Twitter.
You're simply making excuses for which you have no evidence or expertise.
You offered an explanation and it was refuted so you change your reasons.
Business model is eyeballs. If they are at any other site they don't get them.
@pixelpusher220 You're only thinking in the short term. If Facebook thought that way too, then they'd switch to chronological view (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm?s=09).
But they don't because they're clearly playing the long game. And preventing Twitter crossposting vs Mastodon migration tools looks very different in the perspective of long-term strategy.
@LouisIngenthron #SiloApologist
Dude, just go over there then.
Enjoy the mute
@pixelpusher220 "Facebook is evil" confirmation bias is a bitch. 🤷♂️
@LouisIngenthron @jperlow how's that boot taste
@LouisIngenthron @jperlow
It's more like McDonalds telling you not to eat your Burrito Supreme at Wendy's. Because a tool for migrating Twitter info to Mastodon isn't really Facebook's business.
@LouisIngenthron then they should have problems with twitter and every other social media outlet being cross posted. It’s very much overreach.