Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.
Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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i still need it for friends,family and stuff
The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.
You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.
I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.
https://media.tenor.com/iWH2JuFYqoUAAAAM/go-on-continue.gif