Facebook is moderating posts about Signal

44 points by ysee 5y ago ↗ HN

I am trying to convince people to switch to Signal. I am not able to post signal.org link. Moderators / Administrators are approving the posts.

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nikivi 5y ago ↗

encrypted messages on whatsapp ahah

frob 5y ago ↗

Can you give more details? What sort of group is this? Is it public or private? How large is it? How long has this been going on? What links are you trying to post that got blocked?

dijit 5y ago ↗

I want to err on the side of caution and upvote this so that it doesn't get drowned out, but I'm sceptical unless there's proof.

ysee 5y ago ↗

I posted a message on my timeline. Suggesting people should switch to Signal with their link https://signal.org/install

loceng 5y ago ↗

If true then not surprising they'd act quickly to suppress news being spread when it will hurt their bottom line.

creddit 5y ago ↗

Highly doubt FB is doing this unless you're like doing it in a group run by FB or something and then of course they are because you're a spammer.

Mods/Admins? That's not even a thing on FB more broadly, right?

Amazing this gets upvoted. User has absolutely no other pots/comments.

SeyelentEco 5y ago ↗

Just random guess but you probably triggered link spam rules. People posting the same link over and over. It looks a lot like a spam attack to an algorithm.

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xhkkffbf 5y ago ↗

Got to say that this is another reason I'm shying away from these place. Some days their "moderation" seems smart. But the power is too great.