Tweets cross-posted to Facebook was always a horrible user experience. I could never understand why anyone did it. But this hamfisted way of fixing the problem is just awful.
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#22Make 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.
Or just go back to email, which is what I've done. Proton Mail is an excellent alternative to Gmail, and pretty much everyone, even Richard Stallman, has an email address. Reaching out to individuals or sending out a general update every once in a while will suffice. Unless one's friends are really immature, people will hesitate to send you photos of their food or their thoughts on some trite opinion piece.
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#23Based 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?
Facebook, unlike many services, has the luxury of not having to worry about backwards-incompatible changes and data migration when it comes to their user-facing experience since that's not where their money comes from. I doubt this problem was intentional, and is probably being fixed, but seems characteristic of an engineering culture that can afford to be apathetic towards such concerns, if not downright contemptuous (i.e. A/B testing user psychological/emotional state thru content manipulation).
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#24Make 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.
Or just go back to email, which is what I've done. Proton Mail is an excellent alternative to Gmail, and pretty much everyone, even Richard Stallman, has an email address. Reaching out to individuals or sending out a general update every once in a while will suffice. Unless one's friends are really immature, people will hesitate to send you photos of their food or their thoughts on some trite opinion piece.
What's wrong with GMail?
Google stopped mining it last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
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#25That is going to improve the trust!
/s
People will notice things just being different. Good object lesson, and I hope robust discussion.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
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#27I really hope this isn't intentional. Deleting a ton of user data from their site on a whim is pretty ridiculous.
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#28It might just take a few more decisions like this from the social media incumbants before alternative social media structures (federated or distributed) actually make sense for the masses...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
Yes. On Facebook. They want people to login and use Facebook.
Auto posting tweets so that people can use Twitter and still appear to be on Facebook doesn’t help that mission.
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#30Make 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.
> GAE/Github + Hugo is remarkably friendly and low maintenance.
And how do you make your static blog social? No Mastodon and other decentralized networks are the real alternative to Twitter,Facebook, Reddit and co.