> businesses need to make money This is another reason to prefer federation: your social graph is not owned by (at the mercy of) a business whose interests may

> businesses need to make money This is another reason to prefer federation: your social graph is not owned by (at the mercy of) a business whose interests may not even be aligned with yours (bad advertising is only one of the many consequences of this). > extreme I'd not call "there's something better" an extreme approach. The maintenance burden is what makes federated services difficult to operate. That's the issue right now, but people are working to resolve that too. > https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/ https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a... > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466929