I announced recently that Bridgy Publish for Facebook would shut down soon. Facebook’s moves to restrict its API to improve privacy and security are laudable, and arguably the right idea, but also mean that users can no longer use third party apps like Bridgy to create posts.
I didn’t realize it at first, but similar API restrictions hit the backfeed (aka listen) feature, which sends comments and likes back to your web site. Bridgy can still see comments and likes by Bridgy users, but that’s a tiny fraction of the Facebook comments and likes that it used to see.
I spent a while looking for a workaround, and even looked into scraping HTML, but you have to be logged into Facebook to see even public posts, on both www and m, so no luck there. [Insert silo snark here.]
So with a heavy heart, I’m shutting down Facebook on Bridgy entirely. Publish will still work until August 1, but listen largely stopped working on May 24, so I turned it off altogether and disabled new user signup a few days ago.
https://snarfed.org/2018-06-07_turning-off-facebook-for-bridgy – Turning off Facebook for Bridgy
Thanks for all your work on Bridgy for publish, backfeed, and a myriad other great and troublesome features for hoisting content out of the Facebook silo and into our personal sites.
As predicted, Facebook uses their privacy debacles as an excuse to lock out genuine data portability apps. https://snarfed.org/2018-06-07_turning-off-facebook-for-bridgy #Indieweb
As predicted, Facebook uses their privacy debacles as an excuse to lock out genuine data portability apps. snarfed.org/2018-06-07_tur… #Indieweb
Thanks – yep, I realised it was FB’s doing. Really anti-web moves over and over again. But Twitter still works for now. I think there may be a problem with Wordfence too, but I’ve turned it back on to see.
Goodbye, @Facebook. https://snarfed.org/2018-06-07_turning-off-facebook-for-bridgy
Goodbye, @Facebook. snarfed.org/2018-06-07_tur…
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Great to see you tinkering Clint. Pretty sure the bridge to Facebook died with Cambridge Analytica. If you are looking for any ideas and inspiration, I highly recommend diving into Chris Aldrich’s research. There is always something there I feel I have overlooked.
The case for #indieweb made by @doctorow at @EFF eff.org/deeplinks/2019… – how can we get brid.gy working again? snarfed.org/2018-06-07_tur…
I don’t understand why you good internet types don’t use/promote the #fediverse. I know it’s not the whole solution but it’s definitely part of it.
Who says I don’t? xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks (I have accounts on other fediverse servers too, some of which have died)
The OStatus Protocol stack had some missteps in, but good parts, and Mastodon does OK
ok but it’s not in your profile here and I don’t see you tweet about it.
Follow the rel=me links kevinmarks.com/distributed-ve…
update on other failed attempts, from the Bridgy docs: