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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by pascalxus on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:21PM (#15587528)
This is the ideal solution: Tim Berner Lee's (the creator of the internet). PODS let you own your own data and switch from social network to social networks as easily as changing your socks.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/ways-to-decentralize-the-w...

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by inimino on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:22PM (#15590690)
Inventor of the Web, not the Internet.

However, many of his later ideas, like the Semantic Web, have not taken off. “Own your data” is not a new idea, but it isn’t happening. Most people don’t care. It takes more than a famous name to change that.

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