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by rkagerer 46 days ago
Many things about the world are worse than they could be because of choices Meta has made.

If Facebook were designed with a different set of incentives that prioritized the user, fostered positive engagement, and better respected individual's privacy and data sovereignty - setting a better standard for the whole industry - I feel there wouldn't be all this fuss today about banning social media accounts.

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It's likely they wouldn't be as profitable too though, and their mandate to shareholders is to make number go up.