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How much of the content on Facebook is indexed by someone other than Facebook and accessible to someone without a Facebook account? How much of it can be archiv
by IX-103 5y ago
How much of the content on Facebook is indexed by someone other than Facebook and accessible to someone without a Facebook account? How much of it can be archived by a third party?
Content that previously would have been on some personal geocities(?) page on the open web is behind Facebook's wall. Facebook has effectively taken something that was previously open and made it closed.
While I also could not find a coherent solution in the OP, I have to agree with them that the proliferation of closed networks are detrimental to the web as a whole.
- giantrobot 5y ago> Content that previously would have been on some personal geocities(?) page on the open web is behind Facebook's wall. I don't think that really bears out. There's lots of content on Facebook etc that would not be posted anywhere if Facebook (or whomever) didn't make it dead simple. A Facebook user can write a post, start or join a group, or post pictures with no technical expertise. Hosting that content doesn't require a credit card or any credentials beyond their Facebook account. It's also a platform that will spread their content to other people's feeds. Most people don't have the technical skills to do any of those things on their own. Even the lowest skilled Geocities user in 1999 was more technically skilled than the average computer user.
- sircastor 5y agoI’ll go further than that and say that not only has Facebook closed off the information, they’ve also made it ephemeral. The entire model of Facebook is constructed for whatever comes next. It is not and doesn’t want to be a wiki or even a static website.