We Need More Alternatives to Facebook

Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by wcummings on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:41PM (#14389397)

Youre setting the bar too high. RSS support in "microblogging" apps (including Facebook, ideally) gets you a simple federated social network. Discoverability could be handled by any number of third party aggregators, like Google. Publish your email to receive "DMs".

Something can be decentralized without bleeding edge p2p crypto tech.

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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by jancsika on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:59AM (#14393167)

The article criticizes Facebook because it "vacuums up information about our tastes, our shopping habits, our political beliefs, and just about anything else you might think of—is too powerful in the first place."

So what good does it do to push discoverability to the company that is currently vacuuming up all your searches and browsing history?

edit: typo

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