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what gets me about the Facebook/CA brouhaha is that ... like ... people talk about privacy and permissions and shit, but OTOH people also *want* to give full access to "show me your profile and I'll tell you which HP house you are"
yes, including the fucking private messages
and also, without the message permission I'm forced to use messenger app?
so like on the one hand FB should not give out my data, but on the other, it shouldn't hoard them either?
👏F👏U👏C👏K👏S👏C👏A👏L👏E👏
fuck global reach, fuck engagement, fuck popularity! fuck pandering to the lowest common denominator.
global scale makes things bad.
in this fucking world if you don't go global you might as well not try, but when you do, it makes your service actively worse.
👏FUCK👏THAT👏NOISE👏
FB should not *have* the data in the first place, of course. That's the actual solution. But it's a centralized platform and as such has a gigantic advantage in incentivizing people to use it.
and as such, it's damned if it does, damned if it doesn't (open up the platform API)
practically speaking, at this scale, there actually isn't much FB could have done
scale makes things bad