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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by chrischen on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:25PM (#19167761)
what's the point of the internet if, due to network effects, everyone is using the facebook app?
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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by thisisweirdok on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:41AM (#19171244)
Which network effects are locking you in to using Facebook and not self-publishing, or using Twitter, reddit, hackernews, Medium, Tumblr, or any other website?
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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by chrischen on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:23PM (#19177050)
Nobody is going to do the rounds to manually check their friends’ mediums, tumblrs, hacker news, reddit posts, for every friend.
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