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An interesting idea, which raises a lot of questions: Along which lines could it be broken up? Datacenters? Subsets of the social graph? Would you liked to be
by emiliobumachar 9y ago
An interesting idea, which raises a lot of questions:
Along which lines could it be broken up? Datacenters? Subsets of the social graph? Would you liked to be grouped with your family, your school or your church?
It seems very plausible that one of them would grow and engulf everyone, while the others woulg go the way of MySpace. What then?
- toasterlovin 9y agoThere is really only one change that needs to be made: undo the Instagram acquisition.
- Chaebixi 9y ago> Along which lines could it be broken up? Datacenters? Subsets of the social graph? Would you liked to be grouped with your family, your school or your church? > It seems very plausible that one of them would grow and engulf everyone, while the others woul[d] go the way of MySpace. What then? I've thought about this, and I think the best way to break up Facebook is by datacenter, staff, AND social graph. However, each successor company needs to be required to inter-operate with the others and everyone else through some open standard. That would blunt the network effect and perhaps allow a decentralized, competitive market to stabilize.
- egypturnash 9y agoMy answer to most of your questions (which are good ones!) is "go look at the activitypub/ostatus world, especially Mastodon". Federation between smaller, user-supported social sites creates a very different world than ones built to put eyeballs in front of ads. I may be biased by having pretty much ditched Twitter for a Mastodon instance that I run for myself, a few friends, and whoever else thinks it would be cool to be @username@dragon.style and have a Twitter-like thing that lets them emit 7k tweets if they want to.