Facebook keeps flagging my posts as spam. I’m not sure how that happened. Is it an AI assuming that my achievement post about a walk under 10 min/km is spam? Maybe one of my followers on Facebook flags me? It doesn’t support any way to be challenged other than using court. The court process is not a path I want to pursue. That would take over a decade for my country, and I might be the first one in the whole country trying it.
What in a fitness achievement post with no links, on a site with no ads or affiliate links is spam, remains unclear. Facebook does Facebook things.
Here’s my response:
This is one of the reasons why the open web and WordPress are so important, and the walled gardens are evil. Facebook offers no way to challenge a decision like that. A blogger whose income depends on this connection could experience a detrimental impact. I lose access to promoting my posts to the 3-4 friends and family who check it on Facebook. Not pleasant but not terrible.
EDIT: I actually found a link that allows challenging the decision and clicked it.
Veselin.blog 
I’ve found Facebook to be grossly incompetent, especially in regard to user security. Hence, I no longer associate with them.
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It’s the main social network for my age group in Bulgaria. But what can I do? The walled gardens keep turning off or sabotaging the auto-sharing of blog posts. Yeah, Mastodon works but my friends don’t use it.
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No idea mate… I just use Whatsapp these days.
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You and I can’t tell you how many this month alone!
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They might want us to post our posts manually. Not sure
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They keep removing my posts too. There other day, it was on happiness and the post does not condone to their safety standards? Happiness? I guess I’m too happy for FB anc it’s people 🤣
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I’ll post an update if the bot that checks my posts reconsiders
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I feel like links shared on FB are considered spam no matter if they are or not. I notice a huge difference every time I’ve shared a link there. It’s totally ignored 9 times out of 10! If I rant, or write text myself in any way, I usually get a lot of likes and comments, but links? Nope, they’re a dead end for years.
I just wish the Fediverse would take off already and become the new big thing. That would indeed be great.
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Yeah, same with X. I get 2x more views if there’s no link
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A really sad development indeed that is. Links should be treated as good as normal posts on social media.
I’ve noticed as well that posts containing a link looks less interesting overall then posts with text. They sort of blend in with all the commercials on Facebook, so I guess that could be one reason why they’re so ignored.
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Yeah, the walled gardens don’t like to leak any attention out.
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