This thread might be as good as any to point out: * There is an enormous quantity of culture locked into Facebook posts * Since Facebook's graph API have been

This thread might be as good as any to point out: * There is an enormous quantity of culture locked into Facebook posts * Since Facebook's graph API have been shut down, there exists no API-based way to export _other people's data_. You can get whatever you personally have posted to FB, but none of what _other people_ have posted. * Individual posts might be scraped, and present in archive.org ,but people's / pages' indices are not available for non-logged-in users * Social networks have a typical lifecycle of 5-10 years; and their shutdown can happen in a very short timeframe, see eg. geocities ; but imagine that without any accessible index, making full archiving impossible * This implies, that if/when FB goes down, so will a major slice of Internet Culture circa 2008-2016 * If you have any suggestions, or partial solutions to this, please kindly post it to http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/37036/self-hosted-front-end-for-social-networks http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/37036/self-h... .