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Re:Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbia by folksinger on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:37AM (#15703609)
The actual solution is to go for a walk in the woods with some friends or family members.

The actual solution is to invite your neighbor over for dinner.

The actual solution is to volunteer at a retirement home.

The actual solution is to join an amateur sports league.

The actual solution is to take an in-person group class in a subject that you find interesting.

Re:Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbia by Santosh83 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:16AM (#15703834)
In other words, confine computer use to research and communication in sci-tech alone?

Not bad. It's probably how things should have been, but that boat has sailed long, long back.

Point is, efforts to make decentralisation and independent content creating, hosting and sharing should go on simultaneously with other social steps that you have enumerated. Neither can replace the other.

Re:Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbia by watwut on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:48AM (#15703655)
How does any of that replaces facebook in just about any aspect?