How would you build a Facebook replacement without a Faustian deal with surveillance capital?
- Wikipedia: has built humanity's largest encyclopedia without it
- signal: has built a whatsapp clone without it
- mastadon: has built a twitter clone without it
- peer 2 peer: has solved many distribution and scale problems
- federation: has solved many single points of failure problems
- GNU & FOSS: has provided many thoughtful approaches to similar problems
I would love to try and keep this discussion positive and fairly technical.
Please don't just:
- list all the obvious obstacles
- point out that this will never happen
- get stuck too deeply in the 'what is ethical?' conversation.
Technically, how would you approach solving this problem.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/17/facebook-cambridge-analytica-kogan-data-algorithm