Re:Facebook Ban on Linux
by philipwhiuk on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:15PM
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Nice job shilling your own content. If it's worth watching post it as Show HN.
I'm not watching a 20 minute video on the topic, but there is a user in an HN comment[1] stating links to debian.org and qubes-os.org were removed by facebook.
Thus Facebook is not censoring Linux discussions or Linux content, what DistroWatch claimed, it blocks linking to what Facebook deems as malicious links (correctly or incorrectly), something a lot of software does these days.
This is what the yanks call "a complete nothing-burger".
I don’t have the ability to watch 20 minutes of Bryan Lunduke and keep my lunch, so is there a tl;dr of this?
It’s still kind of dumb for them to block Distrowatch regardless. I guess it’s just a bit of automation that wasn’t tuned correctly?
ETA:
I just saw the username. lol.
Don't feel bad for insulting Bryan to his face. It's the correct response.
I didn’t say I felt bad.
No personal attacks, please.
It's a shame that this is one of the only accurate top-level comments and it's downvoted to hell.
I think the complaint is that it's not really a "comment", so much as it's a link to Bryan's own 20 minute video talking about it. It comes off as an annoying bit of self-promotion.
Though I will admit that Bryan is just a deeply unlikable human who is generally under-informed-at-best on any given subject that he's talking about, so people might be looking at it more cynically than if someone else posted it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdMTS6XVu4