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by INTPenis
1713 days ago
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All valid points but there is another perspective to this whole mess. I see it through my family members who all have Facebook, how they connect with relatives across the globe and routinely stay in touch during birthdays and other events. I also see it at most social functions around me that organize over Facebook, because I am left out of those since I don't have an account. My best connection to social gatherings is a friend who also hates Facebook but is a lot more social than me, moves around a lot more, so he hears from all the people with Facebook what is going on through word of mouth. So that's a pretty neat service they're offering to a substantial part of the population. But of course they're suffering from moderation issues, something we can see on all large platforms like Youtube and Twitter. |
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For sure, Facebook is great. It just provides services that shouldn't come from one single company in America.
They should be forced to interoperate. Provide a way to subscribe to Facebook content (pages, events) from outside of Facebook, and a way to pull outside content (RSS, ActivityPub, hell, throw in Twitter while we're at it) into your Facebook stream. A sort of standardized stream for updates and comments.
This would clear up all my criticisms of Facebook. At that point I would only wish them well. I'm sure they would provide the best interface to it, and most people would stay with them, and that would be fine.