Facebook ban on discussing Linux?

[buwho@lemmy.ml]

been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples' posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.

[nao@sh.itjust.works]

Should have phrased it differently: Banning a post on a specific linux distribution is not a "ban on discussing linux" in general.

[s_h_k@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

What a fucking dystopia you live in... Saddening...

[a1studmuffin@aussie.zone]

So what's going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.

[undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch]

I already VPN 99% of my traffic out of the country and use non-US services wherever I can. When Trump was first elected I started wondering if they’re going to start a China-style firewall out of the country and it’s been in the back of my mind since.

[ramenshaman@lemmy.world]

Linux ban on discussing Facebook.

[strawberrypigtails@lemmy.sdf.org]

Probably a little of all of the above.

Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.

[bunitor@lemmy.eco.br]

maybe it's the same reason some banks don't work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage

[godofdirt@lemmy.world]

Just ban meta and x on the whole fucking site

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

I bet they banned distrowatch.com, use distrowatch.org instead. Sadly they give up distrowat.ch

[dgriffith@aussie.zone]

Consider yourself corrected then. I've skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is "bootlicker" or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it's just, "I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!"

So maybe a little guidance for you:

The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what's left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.

Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.

Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it's greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn't worth my time.

[internetcitizen2@lemmy.world]

Linux ban on discussing

You going to finish that sentence buddy?