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What if Facebook wanted to open up parts of the site for users without an account, would that require a major reengineering? I've wondered why Facebook (and Instagram) are so strict about not showing anything to logged-out users, could technical reasons be part of that decision?


I think this currently exists in some shape or other, I don’t have a facebook account but I can click on profiles of businesses and get their opening hours and pictures of their menus or whatever. In think there must be some stuff with a public context.


My guess would be they SSR those pages and partially hydrate the page on the client if the user is logged in.


Are they? I have full access to all the Instagram reels, posts, comments, etc. friends send me, without being logged in.


Not really, it’s 100% business reasons. Facebook and especially Instagram used to be much more open to logged-out users in the past.




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