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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:59:07 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Gabe Kangas

   @gabek it will be nice as we start shifting those memories onto servers we control ourselves.

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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:59:08 JST Gabe Kangas
     @evan As somebody who built handfuls of different types of widgets, “Facebook apps”, and liberal use of the Facebook API for a living, at the time it felt “better”, but in many ways it was actually worse because we weren’t looking at it with a critical lens. There was a time where I was sending every kind of OpenGraph-compatible action to Facebook for aggregation purposes (Gabe listened to N songs using X, Mary played Y game Z times). Meaning the shady stuff Facebook does now to collect data they didn’t have to do back then. I happily volunteered that data for free.