Comment by MichaelZuo 3 days ago
It does like seem there are so many inherent disadvantages that the original proponents must have been confused or intentionally ignoring realistic factors…
It’s like they never even tallied up all plausible advantages and disadvantages in the first place. So how did anyone determine it was an overall net positive?
Privacy, reputation risk, etc., seem like huge disadvantages… so it’s not clear at all if it’s a net positive overall.
Someone has to actually do that analysis in the first place. It doesn’t just automatically become true.
What are the privacy and reputation risks for me as a user, if I'm able to access my data via API?
If you're referring to 'net positive [for facebook]' rather than [for users] or [for society], then the point is conceded that facebook can make more profits abusing their users versus being more considerate of them.
How is this relevant? The user isn’t the one making the decision to implement it or not.
Are you proposing that interoperability is not an overall net positive? If it's getting a bad rap right now it's just because it's not always simultaneously a competitive advantage. But that line of thinking is a race to the bottom.
I mean, why not just kill your competitors? Then your product, however bad, would be the only one. Clearly a net negative, but a competitive advantage.
What has changed is that we've recently lowered the bar for how much of a net positive we plan on shooting for. Top dog on the trash heap is, I guess, now an enviable position.