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Would anyone here be interested in working on a startup that is making alternative front-ends but adding additional features (ability to edit feed algorithm, better DM support, etc.)? Feel free to reach out!
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That's a fine solution if I'm only curious about whether one place is open. I want to know what options I have and I may want to do it late at night or in the morning rather than call twenty places during a busy period.
This is a serious problem. Maybe an opportunity for a SaaS solution with a monthly fee.
> On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed. I had been a user of Barinsta, until the creator was hit with legal threats from Facebook. It was then when I saw it clear that these types of projects are better to be developed anonymously, so without any add…
Yeah. Would be nice if there was a git hosting tor hidden service.
How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours You go around, survey the opening hours posted on local restaurants (I usually take a photo, and don't copy and paste from other sources as this normally goes against their T&C) and then add these to openstreetmap.org. Then next time apps like organicmaps.app update, you'll have all the local opening hours for restaurants and things directly on your device. I have…
Available in the Play Store and on F-Droid. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.westnordost... https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
Edit: Vinnl beat me to it. I need to refresh more often :)
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"Made a business decision" is not the same as "it's ok", and it's dangerous to conflate these. I'm not sure where posting on Facebook falls, but for a relatively clear-cut case consider "made a business decision to not bother with wheelchair accessibility".
There are laws preventing you from ignoring wheelchair accessibility. As a society we have decided it is important. We’ve done no such thing for keeping information on Facebook only.
Overview: Alternate methods to get your account banned
If you'd have cared to actually check the linked projects, you'd have noticed that most of them avoid communicating with the service in question except when abosolutely necessary, which for most of them means the provider can't ban your account because you never logged in from their point of view. At most it will get your ip rate limited if you choose to open your proxy up to the public, an issue most invidious insta…