Pixelfed Surges Post-Meta Change

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The platform is seeing a surge in popularity following Meta ’s announcement last week that it would be drastically changing its content moderation policies; over the weekend , Pixelfed said that it’s seeing “unprecedented levels of traffic” to the pixelfed.social server and was working to increase resources. Pixelfed was also in the news this week because some users claimed that Meta randomly blocked links to the site they shared on Facebook. According to Engadget, Meta blocked the Pixelfed links by mistake and is now reinstating the posts..

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