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I mean Facebook for example, at its core for an end user it really just mirrors what the Internet was built to do. I can easily host my own profile and allow pe
by frebord 10y ago
I mean Facebook for example, at its core for an end user it really just mirrors what the Internet was built to do. I can easily host my own profile and allow people to log in to it and talk to me. How did it become so dangerously centralized?
- mjevans 10y agoThe average user is lazy, cheep, and unaware of how valuable their freedom is.
- willemmali 10y agoDid you mean "sheep" or "cheap"?
- tombrossman 10y agoI think we've just witnessed the birth of a new technology portmanteau on HN- "Cheep: (noun) Member of one or more online herds of users who are exploited for personal data". I like it. (sadly, cheep.com is already taken or I'd be on that like white on rice...)
- criddell 10y ago> How did it become so dangerously centralized? Network effects and there's nothing out there better than Facebook.
- dredmorbius 10y agoFacebook owns the directory, and the notifications channel. Freestanding sites lack this, and it turns out that behavioural costs matter.