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the means advocated for here seem kind of strange though. He correctly points out that the biggest advantage social media incumbents have is their users data an
by Barrin92 5y ago
the means advocated for here seem kind of strange though. He correctly points out that the biggest advantage social media incumbents have is their users data and network effects.
His "comcom" methodology consisting of "reverse engineering, scraping, bots, and other improvisational techniques", is not exactly something I want near my personal information because unlikely the old days you're not reverse engineering hardware schematics, you'd be scraping people's private information.
- nine_k 5y agoIt's fine to scrape your private information under your own control. Many people have the problem that their life's information is sitting in a proprietary silo, without a nice way to extract it. (Truth be told, Google does offer the "takeaway" thing, kudos. FB apparently does not.)
- bryan_w 5y ago1) FB does have a takeout product 2) Scraping your data for your use might be fine, but what about the private data of friends and family that you have access to? Do you want grandma to be able to scrape all your posts/pictures/etc just because she wanted to take the "What kind of harry Potter broomstick are you?" Quiz?
- nine_k 5y agoFor (2): Whatever you've one made available, is available. You lose control once you make it available. You can ask nicely not to do certain things with what you divulge, but you cannot enforce it. So yes, as long as grandma has access to my pictures, it's fair use for her to collect them. Republishing them to a wider circle than originally posted is a different matter. This is the reason I only post online such things which I can repeat under oath, or see posted on the busiest crossing.
- Crespyl 5y ago> FB apparently does not At least as of a few years ago (~2015/2016) they did; when I deleted my own FB account I found an option that allowed me to download a zip archive of my photos and posts. No idea if they still support that now, or where they've hidden the option if so.
- Gollapalli 5y agoNo, it think it's got to be something more than that. I have no idea how you'd do this from a legal perspective. But a base level of "core-functionality must interop". Social media federated by fiat.