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Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray (techcrunch.com)
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[–] deweydecibel 116 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What’s more, developers tell us that Meta’s motivation behind the API’s shutdown is unclear. On the one hand, it could be that Facebook Groups don’t generate ad revenue and the shutdown of the API will leave developers without a workaround. But Meta hasn’t clarified if that’s the case.

No, that's definitely it, you got it.

The promises of web 2.0 simply can't survive in the capital-poisioned wasteland the Internet has become.

[–] bassomitron 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I remember saying back in the early and mid-2000s that the world would be completely fucked if Big Corp ever figured out the Internet (remember all those cringe commercials and campaigns back then where they tried to meme/go viral/etc?). Turns out, it was true.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's with every media. Printing started to share scientific knowledge and ended with advertising flyers. Phones started with contacting relatives and ended with telemarketing. TV ended in reality TV between the ads.

[–] gedaliyah 5 points 9 months ago

I mean, printing was originally for Bibles as long as we're getting nostalgic.