My biggest question is: When are people going to stop spilling ink over this issue and actually fix it? Here are some things that won't work: 1) Continue writ

My biggest question is: When are people going to stop spilling ink over this issue and actually fix it? Here are some things that won't work: 1) Continue writing long thinkpieces about how bad big tech companies are and how they should feel bad 2) starting Yet Another Startup, raising $50 million in VC funding, and repeating all the same problems 5-10 years down the road. 3) Government regulation. Watch the recent Facebook/Google/Twitter congressional hearings if you want to hear the state of tech understanding in our government... Here's what does work: 1) Pursue and promote technological standardization / decentralization efforts regarding social platforms. These problems would be very easily fixable if 1,000 developers agreed to build out a single web standards that encapsulated social data, discovery, and communication. I keep a small list at http://decentralize.tech http://decentralize.tech, but the list is only growing (Beaker/Rotonde, Mastodon/Gnusocial/Activitypub, Blockstack, IPFS, Urbit, Brave/BAT, IndieWebCamp, Scuttlebutt -- All groups with working software today you could work on that kills this and other problems overnight). tldr; Stop complaining about things you got for free and build the dang alternative already.