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 (DIR) Post #9zDK70V6bKWH85vsQK by jeremiahlee@social.librem.one
       2020-08-30T20:59:28Z
       
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       I have 1,109 friends on Facebook, but Facebook only let me export the email addresses for 48 of them.There is no way to take my social graph with me. This is what a monopoly looks like.#DeleteFacebook
       
 (DIR) Post #9zDK70dy4NbnZa4xEm by da@mastodon.technology
       2020-08-30T21:13:28Z
       
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       @jeremiahlee They can only give you the same email addresses you've given them. GDPR, you know. You don't have the right to get information out of the system that you didn't provide them in the first place.
       
 (DIR) Post #9zDK70nXUnGU3GYb9k by mpanhans@social.librem.one
       2020-08-30T23:56:10Z
       
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       @da @jeremiahlee Right about privacy issues limiting email exports. BUT, they could still use some API connectivity to allow some social graph portability. (Ideally a full protocol like AP, but that’s wishful thinking.) Or at least cross-post. Friendica at one point used an API to have a Facebook Connector; but FB made it impossibly unworkable to implement  https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/4969
       
 (DIR) Post #9zDK7110gi2Yj2rM9Y by mike@z.macgirvin.com
       2020-08-31T00:50:42Z
       
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       I wrote that connector originally.... it used to work great and gateway between the "free web" and Google and Twitter and Facebook (and email and anything else we could federate with). What a nightmare it became. And then other free web projects starting building walls to keep people on our project from interacting with "their members".Federating and even migrating online communities is real touchy because you're playing with human tribal instincts and we're incredibly tribal creatures. If I had realised this in 2010 I would have probably done something else with my life. To this date, most successful migrations have been entire minority communities who were forced off one of the larger services by censorship or edict. Anyway, that's all ancient history. My advice is to just forget about Facebook and all your so-called friends on that service. Just leave. You'll be much happier once you break the dopamine addiction. We've been through this many times before. Two or three friends will find ways to stay in touch. Most won't care or even notice you're gone.