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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by jimbob45 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:05PM (#23315814)
It's easy to solve. FB gets to either be a platform for content or a curator for content. They can't be both because that would be a conflict of interest.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by sbarre on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:28PM (#23316615)
Then what's the business model? Who pays for all of it?

I'm not defending a specific approach or solution, but just pointing out that at this point, FB is a huge entrenched business that makes a lot of money on the status quo, and so convincing them to change "for the better" is barking up the wrong tree until "for the better" means "more profitable".

Splitting the platform and curation means the platform needs a revenue stream. If the curator pays the platform, then all you're doing is shifting the conflict up a notch, not solving it.

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