Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth

[andrewducker]

I discovered, about an hour ago, that all of my posts on Facebook which were links to Dreamwidth had vanished. Suddenly gone as if they'd never existed.

I checked with Denise (one of the owners of Dreamwidth) to find out if she knew about it, and discovered that Facebook have stuck Dreamwidth on a block list.

With no explanation as to why, no way to contact them, and no appeal.

This is unbelievably frustrating. And the kind of centralised, autocratic, opaque decision making which I loathe. Tens of thousands of active users, unable to share blog posts with Facebook (which, let's face it, is where most of my friends go for their socialising).

If anyone knows anyone who works at Facebook, do see if you can prod them into getting an explanation...

Edit: All working fine now.

Comments

[jack]

The potential for this is why I hate walled gardens :( I submitted a report.

I noticed when I posted links I seemed to get little response but I wasn't sure if that was the way I was doing it without enough extract, or Facebook burying the external links. But now I wonder if Dreamwidth was on a "deprioritise list for some reason, eg some fan war got a post massively reported or something.

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

One of the explicit factors that the facebook algorithm rewards is content that gets people to stay on the site. No doubt long videos with high view counts good, external links to non-affiliates bad.