Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by elcomet » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

matthuggins wrote: post #6

elcomet wrote: post #2

This is awesome. Maybe then we can finally have a separate group / events app without getting the crappy Facebook feed and notifications. I think most people use facebook either for messenger, or for the group and event features.

Funny, I use Facebook for the exact inverse of this. I actively avoid messenger, group, and event features. I use it to keep in touch with family and share family photos.

Don't you share your family photos in a group? Then you and I have the same use (except for the events).

Or do you share your family photos with all your friends?

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by sreyaNotfilc » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

swift532 wrote: post #100

enlyth wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, people just say it incorrectly. It should be 'couldn't care less'.

But if enough people say it incorrectly long enough, it becomes correct, no? Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".

Exactly!

It really is suppose to be "couldn't care less". Meaning, that they are at level 0/100 of the caring meter.

But as languages go, we tend to move towards an easier way to say the same thing.

"could care less" sounds similar, means the same, and that most people associates it with the former phrase.

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by whack » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

kennxfl wrote: post #61

burtonator wrote: post #38

This is great timing. My new startup, EvilCorp is just about to launch a new social platform where we give your private data directly to Russians trying to subvert our Democracy. Now we can just launch directly on Facebook since they no longer ban us from copying this core feature.

Even if you were targeted with racist misinformation, isn't it your responsibility not to be easily convinced?

I would say it's our responsibility to have an electoral system that can't be so easily fooled

https://outlookzen.com/2018/11/18/a-democracy-that-cannot-be...

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by SwellJoe » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #95

SwellJoe wrote: post #64

They had a platform. Then they killed it by killing anybody who did something better than them on the platform. Now they have a burned out husk of a platform. Who wants to live and work in that? The kids don't even like facebook, anymore (perhaps partly because it's been stagnant due to lack of fresh outside ideas, I dunno...it's not really my area, and I've always been ambivalent about facebook even when it was stil…

"I hated Facebook before it was uncool" is certainly a new twist on an old trope.

"Ambivalent" is the word I used. I'm older than the original facebook demographic. I was well into adulthood when facebook took off. It took me a few years to even open an account, and then only because friends, mostly younger friends, were using it to organize stuff that I wanted to be involved in. I didn't hate it, I just didn't really see the point in it. I figured it was yet another social network that I could ignore forever, because it would fail in a few years to be replaced by the next social network.