Is there any way to get a list of my direct friends with all their contact information (email, phone, etc)?
This is a horrible idea
Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
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#42I deleted my Facebook. Two things I would’ve liked:
- a tool to add exif location data back to my images. In the export the image metadata (like location) is in a separate file. I ended up writing a quick script to do this.
- a tool to message people in messenger my phone number and email. I ended up doing this manually, but it’d be nice to have an automated solution.
Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
#43Is there any way to get a list of my direct friends with all their contact information (email, phone, etc)?
This is a horrible idea
Why? I have access to it anyway by clicking on their name and can cut-and-paste by hand. And they are people who have agreed to share this kind of information with me specifically.
Re: Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
#44When you ask Facebook for your archive it's already pure HTML. All you need to do is to censor it somewhat (if appropriate, e.g. remove private messages) and host it somewhere with access control.
That must be just a tiny bit of the entire data set they have about you. Tracking from all pages containing like button, all characters entered into chat, including those typed but deleted or not sent otherwise. I wonder how does it match against GDPR request.
Quite a bit. You'd have to do a subject access request to get closer to the truth.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mastodon is just twitter. I'm on it... unless I'm missing something. It doesn't completely replace it at all and missing a lot of functionalities that FB have. The ones being, chat room, event invitation/planing, birthday reminder, photo albums, group, etc...
My company is working on something to power that and more, for everyone as open source https://qbix.com If you wind up trying it, please provide some feedback.
When you say "company" is it a start-up thing or a side project or how is it making money?
If there is any money, hire an uxler or a designer or use an ok looking theme to build upon.
I'm sorry to chime in with the other critiques here and on something so superficial, but I think making it to some baseline would greatly improve how the project is seen.
Can you also give an elevator pitch? People can't be bothered with watching a long video I fear.
What I quickly grasp from your website: 1 to 3 devs, technical non-pragmatic solution, something like facebook maybe, but decentralized.
How is it better than diaspora, mastadon, facebook etc.?
I wrote a concept for a twitter-like link aggregator with ratings, without democracy or machine learning and would actually be happy to chat about whether it might fit qbix.