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  • I really hope this makes business websites great again. And using Google Maps to publish business updates. The number of times I've gone to a business during their open hours only to learn that they're closed and that the update was published to Facebook or Instagram is absurd.
    by nunez
  • archived facebook help page, no trackers: https://nonograph.com/about-links-in-organic-facebook-page-p...

    source: https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792

    by writtenone
  • Presumably this is an A/B test? I don't see how that's remotely sustainable
    by Kim_Bruning
  • I seriously can’t understand why there’s so much respect for anyone that works at Meta.

    These people have arguably contributed nothing to society for over a decade (and maybe even made it worse in some instances) for very fat salaries, and yet they’re being praised for being the example of best engineers.

    I periodically use their websites and they’re horrible!

    Seriously, we should know better as the dev-tech society.

    And I don’t give a darn about their research that is being built on top of barely legal mass surveillance so don’t tell me their contributions from stealing data were helpful.

    by codingisfreedom
  • In the 2010s, there was a move away from files in the name of convenience (lock-in).

    The 2020s are a war on hyperlinks. It is particularly unfortunate to see this masquerading as a concern for safety and security (“everything outside of our platform is scary and insecure”)

    by rickcarlino
  • I quit Facebook in 2012. I cannot imagine what's there but in 2019 I had to create a new account to test some development stuff, and checked friends and family and it was pretty much dead.
    by meerita
  • As someone who helps small businesses create their own websites... thank you Facebook! Seriously though, back when "Facebook Pages instead of websites" were all the rage, FB demoting page content in feeds officially killed that movement and I was similarly happy.
    by josefresco
  • I wonder if this is an effort to combat pages which post a short clickbait description and require you to click "read more" to see the full description, and often post the link in the comments. There are lots of sites (Polygon immediately comes to mind) which are notorious for doing this as a way to get fake engagement which boosts their posts which gets more clickbait engagement.

    I know it's all speculation, and this does come across as more monetization creep, but I can't help to wonder if there's an underlying reason beyond "line go up".

    by belak

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