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Re:The Return of the 90s Web by anaxag0ras on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:48AM (#23573094)
Social networks are becoming walled garden so it's kind of tough to crawl them. I mean look at Facebook and Instagram, the biggest social networks. They have robots.txt configured to disallow any crawlers.

Facebook also used have RSS feed for public pages and posts. Now they've not only removed that feature but also have heavy restrictions for third apps.

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Re:The Return of the 90s Web by kernel_pancake on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:49AM (#23590757)
Facebook and the like made the decision to optimise for distraction instead of connection.

Services connected to the Fediverse, an alternative framework that focusses on connectivity, is slowing growing. It's only a matter of time before they are more successful than the walled gardens.

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