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Henry Edward Hardy Mar 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.

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Tim W Mar 24, 2018

@hhardy01 how did Google make the Internet crappy?

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Henry Edward Hardy

@tw How google made things crappy. Example: monetizing USENET and rebranding it as "google groups" now its a source of business intelligence to them for their mindfuck adware campaigns. Who even knows this is USENET and you don't need google to access it or use it?

Embrace, extend, privatize, make propritary extensions, claim legal IP., sow FUD about the community you stripmined. the google/FB/Microsoft way. They all suck and need to go away.