I still chuckle when companies like Facebook change their name to something else. They're kidding themselves.
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
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#32>The entrepreneur pointed out this is not the first time Meta has done something like this. >“A number of years ago [Meta] abruptly ended their Events API, with zero notice,” Burge says. “We just came in one day and everything was broken, we had thousands of support requests open from our customers and it almost destroyed our business that time as well.” I sure hope their business has diversified a bit, because if Me…
Back when Facebook games were really popular (Farmville and Bejeweled Blitz come to mind), Facebook was infamous for making breaking changes constantly. I remember this specifically because my friend told me that I should move one of my games over to Facebook, and I told him that if I did that, keeping it working would be a full-time job.
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#33This sounds about as bad and earth-shaking as MySpace shutting down.
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#34Seems like, they didn’t want LLMs training on their data, unless it’s their LLMs… but also they want people interacting with the site to make posts, not posting via API as ads get no eyeballs when you post via API… also it’s only a matter of time before people just write scripts that generate LLMs output into a post on Facebook via API. I’m sure that’s already happening. Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talki…
> Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots..
Hasn't it been that for a while already?
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#35>The entrepreneur pointed out this is not the first time Meta has done something like this. >“A number of years ago [Meta] abruptly ended their Events API, with zero notice,” Burge says. “We just came in one day and everything was broken, we had thousands of support requests open from our customers and it almost destroyed our business that time as well.” I sure hope their business has diversified a bit, because if Me…
Back when Facebook games were really popular (Farmville and Bejeweled Blitz come to mind), Facebook was infamous for making breaking changes constantly. I remember this specifically because my friend told me that I should move one of my games over to Facebook, and I told him that if I did that, keeping it working would be a full-time job.
Classic "Move fast and break stuff" lol
Re: Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
#36Seems like, they didn’t want LLMs training on their data, unless it’s their LLMs… but also they want people interacting with the site to make posts, not posting via API as ads get no eyeballs when you post via API… also it’s only a matter of time before people just write scripts that generate LLMs output into a post on Facebook via API. I’m sure that’s already happening. Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talki…
“ Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots..” I’m looking forward to this.
For some reason, that made me laugh.
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