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Is there anyone out there making a paid, zero advertising/data collecting social network? What if this service allowed you to buy access for 50 of your closest

by j2bax 10y ago

Is there anyone out there making a paid, zero advertising/data collecting social network? What if this service allowed you to buy access for 50 of your closest friends and family? I would think if it was executed properly and you provided a standard "I'm deleting Facebook and here is why, apply to join my paid for network group" post people would consider making the jump. I know there's a lot to Facebook and I wouldn't expect some new company to stack up feature for feature. Just give me chat, text/image posts and the wall and I will be happy that I can keep up with my close friends and family. I wouldn't be entirely surprised or disappointed if Apple attempted something like this on their Messages platform but I would just hope they'd make it accessible to all phone/computer/tablet users.

swiley 10y ago
There's still email and personal web pages.
- jpetso 10y ago
  Both of which are indexed by Google, unless you're hiding website content behind a login and avoid sending emails to Gmail users. Not much better?
maverick_iceman 10y ago
There's Ello[1] but it's not going anywhere. [1] https://ello.co/ https://ello.co/
frik 10y ago
Facebook will censor/shadow-ban such a "good bye" post. It won't show up at most of your friends news feed. You also cannot advertise a competiting social network. The same goes fr private messages to more than a few people. Even if you try to write a seperate message to everyone, if it contains the same link or a similar text body, most of your friends will never see te message you wrote. That's all automatic. And for photos, they have a semi-automatic review process in place, with an army of contracted FTEs working in low paid countries to scan photos (there was a news story about that recently). I wouldn't be surprised if their other properties like WhatsApp and Instagram are monitored and censored/shadow-ban in a similar fashion nowadays.
- olejorgenb 10y ago
  Source for some of the parents claims: http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/05/technology/facebook-tsu/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/05/technology/facebook-tsu/
2sk21 10y ago
The problem is that even if its completely subscription based and has no native advertisements of its own, your data remains very valuable so there is an incentive for the company to sell your data.

by j2bax 10y ago

swiley 10y ago

There's still email and personal web pages.

jpetso 10y ago
Both of which are indexed by Google, unless you're hiding website content behind a login and avoid sending emails to Gmail users. Not much better?

maverick_iceman 10y ago

There's Ello[1] but it's not going anywhere. [1] https://ello.co/ https://ello.co/

frik 10y ago

Facebook will censor/shadow-ban such a "good bye" post. It won't show up at most of your friends news feed. You also cannot advertise a competiting social network. The same goes fr private messages to more than a few people. Even if you try to write a seperate message to everyone, if it contains the same link or a similar text body, most of your friends will never see te message you wrote. That's all automatic. And for photos, they have a semi-automatic review process in place, with an army of contracted FTEs working in low paid countries to scan photos (there was a news story about that recently). I wouldn't be surprised if their other properties like WhatsApp and Instagram are monitored and censored/shadow-ban in a similar fashion nowadays.

olejorgenb 10y ago
Source for some of the parents claims: http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/05/technology/facebook-tsu/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/05/technology/facebook-tsu/

2sk21 10y ago

The problem is that even if its completely subscription based and has no native advertisements of its own, your data remains very valuable so there is an incentive for the company to sell your data.