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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by Jaruzel on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:15AM (#14415607)
> The only solution I can think of is for lots and lots of people to pool their money and start a non-profit Facebook.

See https://diasporafoundation.org/

Not that they've actually made any sort of dent in the problem - as you say, the network effect is just too strong.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by fattire on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:42AM (#14415696)
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play at all. If you want to contact me on Facebook about that... well, I never had an account, and I am surviving... somehow.

BTW https://mastodon.social is making some headway. I see a lot of security people have switched to it.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by reitanqild on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:02AM (#14416532)
Isn't that a twitter clone?

(My point is that IMO twitter was the most useless of all the mainstream social networks until snapchat arrived.

I reached this conclusion by seing that you can get to twitter functionality from both facebook, instagram and google+ just by removing features and introducing limitations.)

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by AlexandrB on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:20PM (#14419059)
> My point is that IMO twitter was the most useless of all the mainstream social networks

I Twitter is the most honest social network. Everything is public, the end. Unlike Facebook's "privacy" settings.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by c22 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:19PM (#14418652)
When Twitter was launched Facebook didn't have a news feed and Google+ was non existent.
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