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How about moving away from free services and demanding security, privacy, and customer support. Change our attitudes so we are not willing to be the product an

• alkonaut 9y ago
  So basically we pay $1 a year instead of giving facebook all our our information? That might sound reasonable but unfortunately most would probably not pay the $1 even if it was revealed that FB had video of all its users 24/7 since 2008.
  • egypturnash 9y ago
    I run a Mastodon instance and I’ve had a few users ask me when I’m setting up a Patreon to help cover my costs because they want to start paying for it. YMMV.
    • alkonaut 9y ago
      Those users are mastodon users? Then they aren’t in the category I mean. I mean the 90% of Facebook users who will not have heard about #deletefacebook when it’s over for this time. And all those people are the reason I use Facebook. That’s the key to this problem: - making the product isn’t the problem. Technically it’s been done (e.g diaspora) - attracting integrity-conscious users isn’t the problem. But they won’t drag the rest along easily. How to attract a billion Facebook users that won’t even hear about the alternative?
• remir 9y ago
  Before they were acquired by FB, WhatsApp charged like 1$ per year for the service. Since they were mobile-first and most people had entered their credit card info to join the App Store/Play Store, the transaction was friction-less for users. I thought that was genius.