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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by buboard on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:30PM (#21586817)
> Whichever European social network replaces them.

GDPR makes it very difficult to touch user's private data for commercial purposes. that's the whole business of a SN so this is kind of precluded

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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by Nextgrid on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:06PM (#21587258)
Facebook has huge overheads because most of their engineering time is spent on all the creepy privacy violating things they develop and the infrastructure to run them.

If we start from scratch without all that it would be possible to make a profitable social network for a couple of bucks per month per user (or a tiered system, so heavy users or “influencers” would pay more while the base tier remains free).

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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by rorykoehler on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:08PM (#21588530)
The current social network business model was an innovation. Development of a new business model can and will happen again.
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