[austincheney]

> Can we reduce “surveillance capitalism” by reducing the incentive to collect personal data?

No. There is a financial incentive and people tend to willingly give their personal data away for free, often for public exploitation.

I am working on solution for this though. My approach is to provide a social application that is point-to-point without any central service. It is inherently private and never anonymous. When people willingness give their data away it is only to somebody they know and encrypted from everyone else. I am starting with file sharing first (trying to wrap it up this week) and then will add messaging and media soon.