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Great feature, but not major in the big picture.

This (or any other Facebook feature/change) wouldn’t be such a big deal if Facebook weren’t a monopoly which actively takes steps to remain one. Namely,

- being a closed platform with no easy way to migrate your data to another platform

- buying out the competition

As long as the above is true I consider Facebook as acting against its users’ interests, regardless of any specific feature.

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If this is GDPR related then it's to do with privacy, not competition. Suppose you did download a bunch of liked pages, friends comments. What would you do with them? Learn python and import it into, I don't know, Twitter or something? Most people aren't actively looking for a way to do exactly whatever it is on Facebook.com using a different URL.

> If this is GDPR related then it's to do with privacy, not competition.

Yeah but they're very obviously refraining from outright stating "we only do this because GDPR forces us to".

> What would you do with them?

Federate it in a privacy-respecting way among different services, obviously.

And you won't need to learn python, because cool tools to do cool stuff with your facebook data will be popular enough to download as apps.

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