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2. A Nonprofit Needs To Build A FB Alternative That For A Nominal Annual Fee...
Thu Dec 10, 2020, 03:06 PM
Dec 2020

...delivers 90+% of the positive, useful benefits Facebook does, but as few as possible of the social pathologies FB delivers with it, whether by FB's abuse of its users and their data itself for profit, or by its enabling the endless malicious actors of the world to prey on others.

Facebook's billions of users wouldn't shift over to the nonprofit platform rapidly, obviously. But I believe a very large portion would over time, preferring a non-profit, far less predatory, and safer setting for online social interaction.

Facebook itself is irredeemable. Break it up and regulate the pieces, yes. But the bottomless greed of the stock market guarantees that it cannot be salvaged as anything less than an overall malevolent presence.

"The Social Dilemma" Now more than ever. [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2020 OP
K&R Newest Reality Dec 2020 #1
A Nonprofit Needs To Build A FB Alternative That For A Nominal Annual Fee... SuprstitionAintthWay Dec 2020 #2
alternatives are part of the problem. cold turkey? SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2020 #3
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