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This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.

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Yes, this was part of their "security" change after the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

Although, any site using their JS API can still get your name, email and a unique ID, posting is now restricted via a FB modal or pop-up (which is blocked by more recent browsers).

I think this happened in May/June of this year, IIRC.

The change went live on August 1, where they deprecated the "publish_actions" permission.

They stopped new app approval for awhile, prior to the official deprecation announcement.

Good! This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again.

I don't want Facebook, nor Twitter. Just take my email address and send me your content, or offer an RSS feed.

EDIT: Anyone know if this kills Buffer and other social feed managers?

Good - if you don't like/use Facebook. For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.

What the walled garden giveth, it taketh away. Build on someone's platform? Depend on it exclusively? Gonna have a bad time. You would think folks would learn by now.

The real problem is that if 80% of your audience is in the walled garden, and no more than 10% of your audience is on any one of the many other alternatives, you're kind of stuck if you want to reach as many of them as possible easily.

It’s not your audience; it’s Facebook’s audience. You’ve just been granted the temporary privilege of access to them with no further guarantees.

Presumably people wanting to post links to their personal blog can still open up Facebook in a new tab and Ctrl-V the link in themselves, which will take them all of about 10 seconds. Seems a small price to pay if it cuts down the ridiculous amount of botspam on the platform.

This can - and is - used to argue against anything that enables users to do more. This thinking is part of the reason why computing for regular people has only fraction of the utility it could have.

Yes. Following that idea to its logical conclusion would mean getting rid of computers entirely.

For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.

Only temporarily. Once folks move off of Facebook and onto something better, they'll realize that this was a Good Thing overall.

Yes, this kills buffer's ability to post to profiles, however pages and groups are still allowed. https://faq.buffer.com/article/985-publish-facebook-api-chan...

"This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again."

While that would be nice, I'm not holding my breath.

Yup. I had DlvrIt posting my blog posts to Facebook, and now that doesn't work.

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