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I completely agree. The void is terrifying to most people. That's why this ending passage is so important: "I know a man who is building an advertisement-free
by chrbutler 5y ago
I completely agree. The void is terrifying to most people. That's why this ending passage is so important:
"I know a man who is building an advertisement-free Facebook replacement because he agrees with everything I have said critically about Facebook. Except, of course, for one thing: he believes the world needs Facebook, he just doesn’t like the Facebook we have. It’s like how at some point in our past, we agreed that the world required fizzy, brown sugar water, so the alternative to Coca Cola wasn’t no Coca Cola (or the abundance of other things you could drink), it was Pepsi. Why is the alternative to Facebook your Facebook by another name?"
- zeeshanqureshi 5y agoThose are the right questions, that only time can answer.
- watwut 5y ago> Why is the alternative to Facebook your Facebook by another name?" To me, it makes 100% sense. Alternative to X should be kind of X, except minor changes here and there. Otherwise it is not an alternative, otherwise it is completely different thing.
- luckylion 5y agoHarm reduction has its place, but what if most of the harm isn't because of sponsored posts, but because of the all-encompassing always-on social network? Facebook, but a bit less like Facebook sounds like smoking 20 instead of 25 cigarettes a day, doesn't it?
- watwut 5y agoYou need to define what you perceive as harm. The guy apparently believes that what is wrong with Facebook is ads. So, he is building Facebook without ads. If he succeeds, there is no harm.