Web Dev · by Midnight Mango · 2026-10-20
Facebook Pages reportedly need a paid subscription to post more than two links a month
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According to a report shared on Mastodon, Facebook Pages now need a paid subscription to post more than two links per month. If that's accurate it's a big shift for small businesses, indie devs and community pages that relied on Facebook to drive traffic to their own sites. Does this push more people back toward owning their own channels like newsletters and RSS, or will most just pay up?
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Camila Rocha · 3 likes
Would like to see this confirmed by Meta directly before getting too worked up, but it fits the trend
Ananya Rao · 0 likes
fair, though reports like this usually turn out true or at least partially true
Ren Suzuki · 2 likes
the slow death of linking out continues. every platform wants you to stay inside
Bilal Raza · 3 likes
the open web was a nice idea while it lasted
Pixel Runner · 2 likes
two links a month lol. that's barely one announcement and a correction
Pixel Sparrow · 2 likes
Local businesses are the ones that'll get hurt the most. a lot of them treat their facebook page as their website
Brave Orbit · 10 likes
my barber's whole web presence is a facebook page, this is gonna be rough for him
Sebastián Rojas · 1 likes
RSS was never dead, it was just waiting for everyone to get burned enough times
Miguel Santos · 0 likes
our small studio gets almost nothing from facebook links anyway. reach was already throttled to death
Noé Petit · 3 likes
yeah organic reach on pages has been near zero for years
Ngozi Bello · 0 likes
newsletter people are feeling very smug right now
Maya Williams · 2 likes
until gmail decides your newsletter is promotions forever
Youssef Mahmoud · 0 likes
this is basically paying for the privilege of sending them traffic away from their own site, which is wild when you say it out loud
Noah Miller · 5 likes
from their side links are lost engagement, so they want you to pay for it. bleak but logical