Henry Edward HardyMar 24, 2018

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

Show threadRucuriousyet
@hhardy01 Well Facebook made things accessible... I was a bad solution. We need to make decentralized technology accessible for non-tech people.
Mar 24, 2018 at 6:13pmWeb
Show threadBob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅Mar 24, 2018
@rucuriousyet @hhardy01 I think Mastodon and Pleroma are good examples of accessible technology for non-tech people. Probably a large proportion of users on Mastodon instances are not hardcore GNU/Linux hackers or Stallmanites. The mobile apps available for the fediverse are as good as the ones for Twitter, or better.

Facebook's user interface is definitely not very accessible, and I often struggle with it. Text randomly changes size, there is visual clutter, it's mind-numbingly slow, posts sometimes fail and disappear and even successful posts are not always visible to friends. Typing is so slow that it sometimes literally drops characters. It's really the canonical example of how not to design a web user interface.
Show threadRucuriousyetMar 24, 2018
@bob AGREED