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I wonder how long it's going to take for small developers to draw the line and stop voluntarily feeding the beast that is facebook and other centralized media c

I wonder how long it's going to take for small developers to draw the line and stop voluntarily feeding the beast that is facebook and other centralized media companies. The feedback loop is continuously going to be against them, since they are basically training their users to use social media for discovery instead of visiting them directly. I moved my former facebook games away from their platform and even from their login to have peace of mind. A smaller community is healthier, and it will still be there when ordinary users get their brains completely fried from online bickering.

swiley 6y ago
I think a lot of content producers have solved the problem by creating presences on many platforms and asking for donations. Developers are in the position of being able to host their own content (although you lose push notifications if you tick apple off which is something this site probably would do.)
indymike 6y ago
Personally, I've been burnt twice by Facebook, and I'm not ever planning on building anything on Facebook. First time, it was being unable to even get access to the jobs API (we had some fortune 500 customers that wanted use to help them do jobs on Facebook the right way) and the second time, it was arbitrary bans of pages, leading to our just shutting down any operations that were dependent of Facebook. Oh, and then there was the night I caught a hacker trying to buy $36,000 in ads via a chat agent's account. I'm still waiting for a call from Facebook support on that one.