Facebook is Censoring Steemit Links LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Someone scared over at Facebook?
Seriously, Steemit Links No Longer Resolve to a Preview
I noticed it the other day and didn't pay much attention to it. The preview of your link no longer shows up when it's a steemit link. lol
What's Next? Auto-Marking Steemit URL's as Spam?
How scared are they??
Do Friend Counts Matter?
I have accepted over 3500 friend requests on facebook and a member of over 20 groups. They all started rolling in about 6 months ago, when I started posting my photos online. Would this matter, over an account with very few to no friends and groups?
CAUTION! Shadow Bans??!!
" skeptic38
both facebook and twitter have been blocking links to sealion.club for about a month or more. they also shadow bann you. be careful with posts one those sites if u dont want to lose your accounts "
Edit: Are They Watching Steemit? ALL MY NEW LINKS HAVE PREVIEWS NOW!
Did this article scare them in to turning off the feature?
Check your links folks!
My sister just tried to post a SteemIt link on Facebook and it worked fine. I've removed my upvote, I won't downvote as I have know way of knowing if your story is true or not, but it wasn't replicated when we tried.
I have previous links on facebook that worked just fine as well
Have her post a few more dozen and see if she gets the same results I do.
None of my steemit posts work now. I've posted over a dozen links in the past few days.
Unfortunately I'm not her boss so I can't make her do more tests, but I'll link her your post and ask.
So you're saying she hasn't posted a bunch of links? Just one or two?
I'm not new to facebook, this censoring is new though.
I wonder if the number of friends has anything to do with it?
I have 3500+ and in about 20+ groups with thousands in those groups as well. What is your sister at for those kind of numbers?
You mentioned that you posted over a dozen links. It could very well be that there's an automated anti-spam algorithm which caught the fact that you're posting lots of links from the same place? There are many possibilities.
If it's censorship, they're not doing it consistently. Could be like the "shadowban" system Twitter brought out which randomly dropped your tweets from some people's feeds but not everyone's.
Nah, I only posted each link in 2-3 different places, well under their spamming algo's
What's interesting is all my NEW links work now. Crazy
All my links are working now.
Previously posed links from yesterday and the day before are still just text links. I'm guessing they're watching steemit very carefuly
They should be scared! You can do everything here you do on FB, yet get paid for it!
Indeed and it's still in beta and not finished yet.
AMAZING potential here, facebook censoring isn't going to help them.
The only question is what is @dantheman going to say when FB offers to buy Steemit for $1B...
GOOD Question
LOL, what would YOU say? :)
That's a tough one. On one hand, that is a significant premium to what it is worth today, but FB is currently a $350B company, and if things happened perfectly Steemit could replace FB some day. So selling for $1B could be a massive undersell....
So, to answer your question.... "I don't know" :)
@jrcornel Excellent answer ;)
I'm pretty sure in the rare instance that FB offers to buy Steemit for $1B... dan would flat out say no or at least let us vote on it. best part is you and I own the steemit blockchain, not to mention, i see a day when the steemit chain's market cap is worth much more than 1B. If steemit had a 1B market cap right now with 115,333,382 steem in circulation STEEM would be worth $8.67051657.
Now all my links work. Check out my Facebook Page
You'll see the posts from the last few days which are still links without previews.
Now when I post a link (vs. 2 hours ago) the preview shows up fine.
Is Facebook Watching Steemit EXTREMELY Closely?
lol
Try the debug tool at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
If that doesn't work, then something is definitely up.
Giving it a shot right now. Thanks a bunch :)
Debugger says my steemit links are posted(Took a second). The issue is with the image. I would imagine they've put a block on the steemit servers, so previews are unable to grab images from it.
YEP! They're censoring. LOL
Ok, so debugger finally grabs the photo. Took a while, same as 'finding' the post took.
My preview from a link yesterday still not showing, new link with picture found still not showing.
Nice debugger tool, appreciate the tip again. :)
no worries :)
Who Has Posted A Few Dozen Links?
What's your experience?
I'm guessing it will be the same as mine. Smart of them to not do it with the first few posts.
I would imagine a lot of steemers don't start out posting a lot on facebook.
They cancelled my steemit adverstisement campaign on facebook too.
Rotten bastards. Yes, someone over there is definitely scared. LOL
RUN FACEBOOK RUN!
Here's the meme I made on one of my posts a couple weeks ago.
Is quit fitting if you ask me :)
What would it take for facebook to convert? LOL
All my links work now. The previously posted ones are still simple links
Look at my page on facebook
And no, I didn't choose remove preview, these are from yesterday.
both facebook and twitter have been blocking links to sealion.club for about a month or more. they also shadow bann you. be careful with posts one thoes sites if u dont want to lose your accounts
This is Why I Also Posted This in #Petty
sigh
Why are people so small, they'll do things to hurt their credibility? Someone's going to regret these actions.
i just see it as cencorship of the uncencored sites. the main influx of users on new social platforms is because alot of people are gitting banned or they will not support a site that supports cencorship. the more they do it the more people leave because of it. i personally feel that having the choice of new uncencored platforms will kill the old ones and they know their time is done, so they are just trying to keep what they have for a little longer at any cost.
Very well spoken.
I believe as you, people will gravitate to uncensored sites. Freedom is contagious :)
what actions? O.o
petty actions like canceling previews, shadow banning, basically anything which would leave a foul taste in your mouth when it's done to you.
no?
yeah i agree. i think they know it but they have no other choice at this point.
Such a sad reason.
You'd think a company with such resources could come up with something similar. heh
Mine seems to work still?
Have you posted many links? The first few of mine worked as well. Not now. :)
Yep. Mines fine preview is showing. Probably just didn't load properly.
How many links do you have up?
Zero of my links for the past few days are showing a preview, it's not a load properly issue.
I've put up 20 in the last month. When I saw your post I tested my friends asking them to comment or post if they can see it. All the usual people who interact with me on facebook did and the picture showed up fine.
Try it on another computer
Yeah, my previous posts show fine, the last few days are all links only, no preview.
In the last 45 minutes I've been able to post and the preview shows now.
They're right to be scared about steemit :)
They know steemit is going to be a disruptive social media and obviously don't like that as the biggest social platform.
Indeed
and they're being sneaky about it as well.