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by aristus 3999 days ago
Facebook's permissions model is very complex. Just imagine a case where Fanny comments on Alice's photo which is shared to a custom friends list, which contains Bert (Alice's friend), who Fanny put on her block list... and that's a simple example.

It has been proposed a number of times to put it all behind an API. I do not know if this has been finished yet. I remember an epic diff comment thread which only ended after the author defended her solution with a mathematical proof of correctness.

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> I remember an epic diff comment thread which only ended after the author defended her solution with a mathematical proof of correctness.

Can you share anything more about this anecdote? I feel like there's a really interesting story there.

Not a lot that's public, but Mary P commented on this AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ydy0w/i_am_raylene_y...