What happened to freedom of speech?
I guess it was never really a thing in Web2 social media...
Here's a post I made in Bulgarian from my Facebook profile , about how it is censoring unwanted traffic, and in this particular case, Hive-related content.
I hid his name and all Hive associated links and used strange and non-direct words, so (eventually) my post can avoid being detected by Facebook's systems.
https://www.facebook.com/ivan.geevo/posts/4275948322464047
How do we promote Hive if no one sees us?
Read below to understand what happened...
My friend @iliyan90 has been trying very hard to bring more people in to Hive by sharing his content on Facebook and Instagram, but he is shadow banned and all traffic related to Hive is just hidden from all his friends and followers....
Keep in mind that he has over 5000 friends and over 800 followers on Facebook...
I have just 1000 friends and a few follows.
I did a comparison on the engagement with 2 pictures, one post from my not shadow banned (yet) profile, and his posts.
As you can see from the pictures my account was able to receive a lot more exposure, but his post can only be seen if people visit his profile manually.
Facebook just doesn't want it's users to know that they are making money from people on their website and that there are better alternatives as Hive.
This is very egoistic from Facebook's side, because the biggest social media, shouldn't be doing this to us...