[f_souza]

The 3rd party app issue, and most of the API problem consequently, wouldn't be such a big issue if they didn't take forever to release the official app, only to put out an awful one when they finally did. You don't see many people using 3rd party apps for other social media.

[shmatt]

You think Facebook would let a large percentage of users use a 3rd party app that blocks all advertisements, tracking, and other monetization? Look at how Meta treated the whole Apple tracking ordeal

If a lone dev would have made an app like Apollo for FB, they would be under 10,000 pages of litigation the next day

People don't use the FB app because its great. They would love a non-tracking version of the same service. It's just not allowed