Re:Facebook Downgrades WikiLeaks Article Page
by fsflover on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:24PM
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Yet another idea is to force them to provide freely accessible API and possibility to extract all data in a free format.
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Re:Facebook Downgrades WikiLeaks Article Page
by tehjoker on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:35PM
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This helps somewhat from a competition perspective, but the overhead of downloading and uploading potentially GB or TB of data (messages, photos, videos, etc) is not something users are accustomed to and is a significant barrier.
While it can make switching costs somewhat lower (does uploading your posts from another platform always make sense in a new context with new people?), it doesn't do anything about the network effect.
Re:Facebook Downgrades WikiLeaks Article Page
by fsflover on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:42AM
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> overhead of downloading and uploading potentially GB or TB of data (messages, photos, videos, etc) is not something users are accustomed to
Users don't have to do it. See Nitter (for Twitter) and teddit.net (for Reddit).