[aaomidi]

Have you considered that any change done is going to mean winners and losers.

If Facebook permanently goes down then those businesses would move to a different platform.

Would it suck? Probably. Would the world be a better place without Facebook? A ton of people think so. Me included.

This is the same argument people have used when we talk about health insurance in the US being scammy. If we ever decided to address it it means a good chunk of people lose their jobs but also means that the health of this country goes up. Which one is more important?

[mitigating]

But people moving from Facebook to another social media or messaging platform is just changing the company. That new company could do whatever things you don't like that Facebook is doing. Your example seems to mean that we move to another healthcare system as in method of implementation not just moving from one company to another.

[grey_earthling]

> But people moving from Facebook to another social media or messaging platform is just changing the company.

This is not necessarily true. There are social networks and messaging systems implemented as open protocols.

[mitigating]

That's a fair point. I'm going to make an assumption here but those systems aren't moderated or controlled centrally? So I see two issues with these if they become popular. 1. This only increases misinformation since there's no censorship at all 2. What prevents people from using the service for illegal purposes (I think this becomes a problem once services become popular) 3. Finally won't it just be banned eventually? If some court in any country issues a ruling to control it and it can't be controlled that will just escalate. Especially if it's something like pedophiles.