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

Re: Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

[ex_inklessej388]

And to add insult to injury many of those trivial posts are designed to collect and collate the personal information of you and your friends. It would be one thing if the pointless crap on Facebook was harmless, but it most certainly is not.

Re: Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

[calimac]

Huh? I'm talking about trivial posts posted by the user. B. unfollowed one friend of ours for his irksome habit of posting photos of every meal he eats. For some reason FB encourages people to post that kind of blither. Are you talking about some kind of post generated automatically by FB from user data? That would be very disturbing, but I know nothing about anything like that.

Re: Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

[ex_inklessej388]

It's coming out more and more now but a lot of those personality quizzes and "What Game of Thrones character are you" and "What Colour is Your Mood Today" type posts that can tossed around by friends and family are used to collect personal information on you and your friends. It was used by Cambridge Analytica during the last US election and it is coming out more and more how these quizzes are used by phishers to gather personal information on a person over time.