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Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by JoshTriplett »

MBCook wrote: post #10
Alex3917 wrote: post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK? It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way. Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts? I guess I’m surprised t…

> No, it’s the equivalent of get hub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge.

People do regularly mirror repositories to github, and there'd be serious problems if github prevented that or somehow tried to force you to have your github repository as the "canonical" home of your project.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by MBCook »

shawn wrote: post #5

Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this. I’m mostly joking. Who makes their own websites anymore? Frustrating seeing users caught in the crossfire of policy updates for tech giants.

If only all this removed content already existed somewhere else. Like a different extremely popular social network.

Like the one all the content was actually posted on originally.

I guess I don’t see why this is such a big deal other than as a generic opportunity to be mad at Facebook.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by nordsieck »

shawn wrote: post #5

Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this. I’m mostly joking. Who makes their own websites anymore? Frustrating seeing users caught in the crossfire of policy updates for tech giants.

> Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this.

GAE/Github + Hugo is remarkably friendly and low maintenance.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by munchbunny »

Based on the article, the intended behavior was to disallow third parties to post as the user, going forward. But what actually happened was that historic third party app posts also got hidden/deleted?

I feel like that's a pretty obvious problem you would anticipate and write tests for, isn't it? How did something like this manage to get to public rollout?

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by [deleted] »

bittercynic wrote: post #9
Alex3917 wrote: post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

I think it would be a very smart move to plan for all of those things to happen.

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Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by MBCook »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #11
MBCook wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK? It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way. Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts? I guess I’m surprised t…

> No, it’s the equivalent of get hub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. People do regularly mirror repositories to github, and there'd be serious problems if github prevented that or somehow tried to force you to have your github repository as the "canonical" home of your project.

Honestly it’s not a great analogy because GitHub and SourceForge exist to promote cooperation and open code.

That’s not really what Facebook is for, it’s not supposed to be ANOTHER place to find your tweets.

I’m trying to come up with a better analogy but I’m not doing very good.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by chasing »

MBCook wrote: post #10
Alex3917 wrote: post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK? It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way. Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts? I guess I’m surprised t…

I liked the cross-posting because some people would comment on those Tweets on Facebook -- and then we could engage there. It did add value and wasn't just shoveled content.

Anyway, I'm not particularly upset. Seems more like Facebook shooting themselves in the foot, as now I really have no reason to visit the site.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by [deleted] »

MBCook wrote: post #10
Alex3917 wrote: post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK? It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way. Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts? I guess I’m surprised t…

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Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Post by MBCook »

chasing wrote: post #18
MBCook wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK? It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way. Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts? I guess I’m surprised t…

I liked the cross-posting because some people would comment on those Tweets on Facebook -- and then we could engage there. It did add value and wasn't just shoveled content. Anyway, I'm not particularly upset. Seems more like Facebook shooting themselves in the foot, as now I really have no reason to visit the site.

I kind of wonder how big/common this ever was in the first place. Except possibly companies.
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