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Got suspended for no reason "spam" - for automating scheduled posts via their API 🤬 (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by TailwindSlate@alien.top to c/mastodon
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I use social media automation tools to schedule posts ahead of time several times a day. They suspended me out of the blue for "spam". I am using their API for this. Literally no "big tech" platforms have done this to me - not LinkedIn, X, etc. I am just shocked that Mastodon who claims to be the anti establishment is the only one that has "silenced" me.

For someone working on their personal brand and following, are there even benefits of sticking around Mastodon? From my limited knowledge of it, it seems that if I cannot be on the primary server, then there isn't much of a point for me being on Mastodon. Am I wrong on this assessment?

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[–] NowWeAreAllTom@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because an API exists which allows you to post does not necessarily mean that the things you are posting are allowed on whatever instance you're using.

I have no idea what kind of stuff you're trying to post so I can't speak to whether it was reasonable for them to suspend you, but I think most mastodon users would not agree that mastodon.social is the only instance worth being on

[–] TailwindSlate@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No external links. No promotions. Just hashtags and statistics around digital marketing, ecommerce and web dev scheduled about 4 hours in between posts.

[–] Beardedgeek72@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Which sounds like spam to me. Was your account flagged officially as a bot? Then you might get away with it. Otherwise I would say it fills the definition of suspicious behavior / spam and definitely the content most people on say Twitter would block your account for.