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I'm surprised at the outrage too. Your personal profile on Facebook is supposed to be a place to post your holiday photos, pictures of your kids, updates about events in your life etc, not mindless automated stuff like this. Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, bu…
> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook). We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of…
Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
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Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#52What? Having social iteraction owned by a private quasi-monopoly means the monopoly can screw with how you interact with the world at will? Who could have guessed that? Really, I don't understand how this is news. It's what was going to happen, everyone with half a brain has known that since facebook started being a thing, and anyone who cared could trivially avoid it. So how is it that there are still people who app…
> Really, I don't understand how this is news. It's what was going to happen, everyone with half a brain has known that since facebook started being a thing
Just because something isn't a surprise to you, doesn't mean its not news. I know that wild fires will inevitably happen, but I'm happy that they are reported on the news.
> So how is it that there are still people who apparently care that this happens?
So how is it that there are still people who apparently don't realize that the 2B+ users of facebook don't know everything they know.
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#53People who follow me on Facebook are different than people who follow me on Twitter. The integration was nice because I could send messages to both platforms at once and would get responses from different people on each. I'm not going to copy-paste every tweet into Facebook, so I suspect I'll basically go silent on that platform. Which sucks. And if I'm not an active part of the Facebook community, I'll probably visi…
I switched from Facebook to Twitter/Snap/Insta.
Much easier than I expected, I still check my facebook once every few weeks, but the content on FB was garbage.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook). We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of…
Is this you? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-i...
I am far too old and uncool to have any idea that that kind of thing existed. I'm more in the barstool sports/onion/fuckjerry/animalsdoingthings wheelhouse. Pure stupid entertainment, hearkening back to a simpler internet. Pepperidge Farms remembers...
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#55I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more dif…
I used to use this feature. It meant that I didn't have to log in to Facebook to re-post the thing I already posted on Twitter. If I still used this feature, I'd be upset that Facebook just took a step to make my life a little bit harder.
In general, I care more about my own convenience than some incremental step against bots that probably won't noticeably impact my experience on the site.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
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Why couldn't they blanket-deauth all Facebook apps (or maybe just ones authed before this year, or sth.) instead? People would fix the apps they still use. And really, publishing apps on FB is not a real problem; apps exfiltrating data is.
That would be the death of the platform.
Assuming they just meant revoking the authorization to post, that's less extreme than permanently disabling the API endpoint for all apps.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#57I may be swimming in the opposite direction, but I like to see that go. I left Twitter (well, abandoned my account) years ago, tired of the excessive noise and progressive loss of relevance to me. Seeing tweets on the FB feed always makes the author seem lazy and desperate to have a presence in every social media site, just because. I know that the change won't stop all of that but will certainly reduce it. FB isn't…
I had my blog auto post to facebook when I was using WordPress it was convenient but quickly realized it was annoying for others. Now I manually share on personal profile if I think my friends would enjoy it.
Glad to see it go away. Personally, I was getting tired of others’ auto posts too.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#58I assume IFTTT would continue to be a good solution, no?
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#59I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more dif…
I'm not outraged, but I think it's a self-defeating move for Facebook. Which is fine, since Facebook - as a walled garden which is opposed to the Open Web - needs to go away anyway.
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I'm thinking more and more that I will probably be deleting my Facebook account sometime in the not too distant future. I'd really rather be doing all of my information sharing / browsing / interaction using a pure Open Web[1] oriented platform and that's exactly what Facebook is not.
Not sure exactly what form this will take, but I want to move to a platform which is not a walled garden, and is based on open and decentralized standards like RSS/Atom, ActivityStrea.ms, ActivityPub, RDF, FOAF, SIOC, XMPP, NNTP, SMTP, and the like.
A proper Web platform should allow anyone to participate on their own terms without some corporation being able to arbitrarily decide the terms of what you can do, while simultaneously profiting from the resale of our personal data.
Maybe this will mean Mastodon, maybe I'll go back to a self-hosted Roller based blog, etc. I already self-host an ejabberd server for XMPP messaging, so that will probably be part of what I do going forward.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#60I assume IFTTT would continue to be a good solution, no?
Nope, this breaks their automation as well. Facebook has basically removed posting ability to personal feeds from their API entirely.