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Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
- richwater 3y ago[flagged]
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- byteknight 3y agoShameless plugs will shamelessly plug?
- chankstein38 3y agoThey did it a little further down as well. If I had to guess it's kind of to humanize and demonstrate that potentially marginalized groups are being heavily affected. But when I read it I also went... "...ok?"
- paxys 3y agoThe same reason why you pointing it out and bringing it over here is relevant even though it has nothing to do with the overall discussion. Some people always want to fight culture wars no matter the context.
- jamiek88 3y agoIf it isn’t relevant why bring it up in this thread? Because both you and him know what you are doing. Just from different sides.
- 4ndrewl 3y agoIf you view the name check as a free advert for the company, does that help?
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoSounds like his primary customer might be female influencers.
- 1-6 3y agoSounds like gatekeeping such that AI crawlers can’t access.
- byteknight 3y agoMy initial thought was generated content, but this is probably more accurate.
- iszomer 3y agoExcept from their own subsidiaries?
- iszomer 3y agoedit: I was missing some context. - https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-new-ai-chatbot-trained-public-facebook-instagram-posts-2023-09-28/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-new-ai-chatbot-trai...
- datadrivenangel 3y agoMaybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spammers and scammers may still do. All this does is make it harder for regular people to interact with facebook on their own terms.
- vineyardmike 3y agoIs this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property? I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?
- mathgladiator 3y agoIt's probably exceptionally tiny, I managed FB's web proxy for chat, and I was upgrading the protocol and discovered two people who wrote their own clients. I had to cut them off just they were not polluting the data I was gathering for reliability.
- strongpigeon 3y agoSome companies whole business model is just that. See buffer.com. That being said, a lot of the stuff they do is now offered by Meta directly (e.g: scheduling post, responding to comments at scale)
- marwis 3y agoBefore shutdown of Events API Facebook was a convenient hub for social events and parties. Shutting it down led to organizers no longer posting events to FB (I guess they were using some 3rd party platforms that cross-post to multiple sites) and just removed one of the few remaining reasons to use FB. This I imagine will have similar effect with some groups moving elsewhere (Instagram, Twitter?), just further shrinking userbase.
- encom 3y agoBecause Techcrunch are unable to design a functioning website: https://archive.vn/idisI https://archive.vn/idisI
- andrewinardeer 3y agoAt this point a walled garden is more of heavily fortified border wall with razor wire, guns and armed troops.
- thimp 3y ago[flagged]
- gremlinsinc 3y agothat grass on the other side is cow dung spray painted green.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago>The entrepreneur pointed out this is not the first time Meta has done something like this. >“A number of years ago [Meta] abruptly ended their Events API, with zero notice,” Burge says. “We just came in one day and everything was broken, we had thousands of support requests open from our customers and it almost destroyed our business that time as well.” I sure hope their business has diversified a bit, because if Meta did it before they'll do it again.
- Tommah 3y agoBack when Facebook games were really popular (Farmville and Bejeweled Blitz come to mind), Facebook was infamous for making breaking changes constantly. I remember this specifically because my friend told me that I should move one of my games over to Facebook, and I told him that if I did that, keeping it working would be a full-time job.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoClassic "Move fast and break stuff" lol
- 486sx33 3y agoSeems like, they didn’t want LLMs training on their data, unless it’s their LLMs… but also they want people interacting with the site to make posts, not posting via API as ads get no eyeballs when you post via API… also it’s only a matter of time before people just write scripts that generate LLMs output into a post on Facebook via API. I’m sure that’s already happening. Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots..
- actionfromafar 3y agoWhich cyberpunk novel is that? Something about strata upon strata of computing talking trash.
- klyrs 3y agoNeal Stephenson's Anathem, I believe.
- beretguy 3y ago“ Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots..” I’m looking forward to this.
- brnt 3y ago> Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots.. Hasn't it been that for a while already?
- Animats 3y ago"...the shutdown of the API would cause problems for companies that offer solutions to customers who want to schedule and automate their social media posts." Turning off automated posting ought to be an improvement.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoMy guess is that it has to do with the election. Any automated use of Facebook is going to invite unwanted scrutiny, and so Facebook is probably locking down a bunch of third-party automation.
- sys_64738 3y agoI still chuckle when companies like Facebook change their name to something else. They're kidding themselves.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThis sounds about as bad and earth-shaking as MySpace shutting down.