[rvense]

> So that's a pretty neat service they're offering to a substantial part of the population.

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.

[annadane]

The thing that's insane to me is you can't even access any profiles without being logged in. This is public information; they've locked things down to an incredible degree and I bet every last dollar I have it's for cynical reasons and not "user privacy"

[INTPenis]

Of course I agree because I'm from a traditionally socialist country. But you reap what you sow in a free market economy.

I just don't see the US implementing such measures. But I do hope for a municipal social media platform in Europe some day.