You either get stuck into facebook's tight grip on people's perpetual brain rot, or in google/apple's notification gardens. Welcome to the free and open internet.

This will kill most of Facebook.

So many pages link out to other things, including major news sites.

This will either get reverted or Facebook will die. Mark's choice.

Is Facebook even relevant anymore?

This is to get sites that monetize Facebook as a funnel to pay.

This is a bi-directional play. For the vast majority that dont, this is an attempt to get more content INSIDE the facebook ecosystem as a moat, and for those that need outside content links they will pay since its a organic premium conversion.

Not defending it, just explaining the logic and why it might work even if it seems superficially stupid.

I keep getting this feeling that we're in late-stage capitalism because of how all the oligarchs are maximizing extraction:

* Facebook with this and its new scraping rules for business accounts

* Turning Venezuela into a fiefdom

* Skydance merger

and on and on. But it's not late stage. It's just capitalism and we'll be reading about the same behavior 10 years from now.

Isn’t this good news? I imagine a lot of misinformation and phishing will become difficult.

this will just kill genuine posting, your favorite pages will stop sharing and your feed will drown in even more AI slop

I barely use fb as it is and this will just drive me off the platform entirely