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I also find it very frustrating. How can I get rid of FB while important groups I'm a part of use it? However, the demise of RSS combined with the desire of in
by jtbayly 8y ago
I also find it very frustrating. How can I get rid of FB while important groups I'm a part of use it?
However, the demise of RSS combined with the desire of individuals to share things online without having their own "site," means that there is no place like FB for aggregation of content I'm interested in.
I'm still trying to start a forum outside of FB, though. I'm using Discourse. It's a far cry from phpBB.
- amelius 8y ago> I also find it very frustrating. How can I get rid of FB while important groups I'm a part of use it? I think the only way to break the lock-in/network effect is: 1. creating a FB scraper; 2. push the scraped content to an alternative (more open) platform; 3. as more people use the scraper, more and more content from FB becomes available in the alternative platform; eventually everybody can move to the new platform. Of course, a scraper is against FB's ToS, but this shouldn't be an impediment. For example, a scraper for YouTube has been available for years, and so far has not been successfully blocked.
- jtbayly 8y agoHave you seen such a scraper anywhere? Seems much harder. Youtube doesn't require you to be logged in to see the majority of content. Plus, you don't want the comments to come along when you scrape YT, whereas on FB, that would be a large part of the point.
- amelius 8y agoNo I assume it doesn't exist yet. Indeed, the scraper would require the user to be logged in. Therefore, the scraper should probably be installed as a browser plugin.
- asdff 8y agoRSS didn't go anywhere you know. Found this thread from my feeds :)
- jtbayly 8y agoI know. And I actually use it (aside from podcasts). But nobody else does, and it doesn't seem likely to come roaring back. So the larger problem remains.