Do you remember when FB chat was just Jabber and you could get RSS feeds from there? Pepperi... I remember. I think I still have the local chat logs somewhere

Do you remember when FB chat was just Jabber and you could get RSS feeds from there? Pepperi... I remember. I think I still have the local chat logs somewhere :D But at one point they figured out the most valuable thing a social media site has is the content and the graph between users - and they locked it down first (APIs with limits). Then started turning off the API endpoints completely, just selling the aggregate data. The bots and troll farms don't care, they can just use browser automation instead.