About six years ago I wrote about the perils of using Facebook as your primary photo store (among other things) - http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-... . Sad to see that so few people have followed my advice, that a tool such as this is necessary.
Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
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#32I made one a few years ago that support EXIF and correct dates https://github.com/mohsen1/fb-photo-fetch
I hacked together something similar (not CLI) at https://www.fbexporter.com/
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#33Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…
Indeed, but for this kind of thing to make a serious dent in Facebook, it would need to include a photo hosting and sharing service. Which, unfortunately, cost money to hold the data, so you either need to charge for hosting, or collect revenue through ads or selling data (self-hosting would be nice, but difficult to get your grandma to do it)
But, maybe even a simple photo sharing service _that lets you share those photos back to facebook users_ might be the first crack in the dam wall
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#34Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…
Always felt a set of “content viewers” for Dropbox might also undo Facebook and “social media”
Something for 1:1 or 1:ppl-I-trust type sharing.
Couldn’t reason around a way to share comments such that they couldn’t be mucked with or adding a bunch of extra files to the Dropbox. Maybe an encrypted Sqllite file that each client signs on write so if it’s tampered with you’d know?
Keybase and their builtin git and filesystem features might be useful for that too
But Keybase is not as adopted as Dropbox be.
Personally I find little value from social media that enables connecting everyone. And I don’t think I’m alone — last Xmas, got to talking to my nieces who are leaving home for college. They have zero interest or trust in Google and Facebook
Twitter is useful for headline and current events updates but that could just as easily be RSS. Can’t IPO based on an open standard, I guess. Not enough sizzle
Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
#35Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…
Indeed, but for this kind of thing to make a serious dent in Facebook, it would need to include a photo hosting and sharing service. Which, unfortunately, cost money to hold the data, so you either need to charge for hosting, or collect revenue through ads or selling data (self-hosting would be nice, but difficult to get your grandma to do it) But, maybe even a simple photo sharing service _that lets you share those…
I wonder if something useful here is a service like what some NASes (Synology) provide, where you 'self-host' on your PC/NAS, but also replicate to someone you know's PC/NAS. Basically, install the app on both PCs, swap keys (or authentication details) and start synching.
Cloud backup without needing cloud and it would be bi-directional so you get off-site redundancy for your data/photos. Further leveraging the SAN capability is that you could share the photos online by providing public URL's. Maybe too difficult to manage for Grandma, but if either end can share (with only authorisation provided by the other party) it might work?
Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
#36Name conflict warning: There is already a software project named Textile. Here's the homepage: https://txstyle.org/
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#37Not working for me. The output is the same as the input. Any ideas?
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#38Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…
Indeed, but for this kind of thing to make a serious dent in Facebook, it would need to include a photo hosting and sharing service. Which, unfortunately, cost money to hold the data, so you either need to charge for hosting, or collect revenue through ads or selling data (self-hosting would be nice, but difficult to get your grandma to do it) But, maybe even a simple photo sharing service _that lets you share those…
While it is going to cost money of course, this is exactly what we are building into our product. But instead of using centralized servers that know your private keys, we are building it on decentralized hosting (IPFS) and we never know your private keys. Take a look, https://www.textile.photos/
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#39Not working for me. The output is the same as the input. Any ideas?
Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, but for this kind of thing to make a serious dent in Facebook, it would need to include a photo hosting and sharing service. Which, unfortunately, cost money to hold the data, so you either need to charge for hosting, or collect revenue through ads or selling data (self-hosting would be nice, but difficult to get your grandma to do it) But, maybe even a simple photo sharing service _that lets you share those…
While it is going to cost money of course, this is exactly what we are building into our product. But instead of using centralized servers that know your private keys, we are building it on decentralized hosting (IPFS) and we never know your private keys. Take a look, https://www.textile.photos/
I thought IPFS required someone to pin/host the content in order for it to stay alive. So if it's private how many people are likely to host it?
Or am I missing a detail?