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A comment on You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon.

Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by quadhome on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @04:52AM (#36678166)
Facebook and Instagram never killed their robust third-party client ecosystem the way Twitter and Reddit recently did, because they never had one. They understood their business model from the get-go.

I remember when Facebook trumpeted their open APIs. The Internet forgets so quickly.

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by asadotzler on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:32PM (#36686142)
Indeed. Because of the massive turnover in this industry, it's got a very short memory. Few of us here today were working on this thing a quarter century ago.
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