Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement

Every time I try to get a small business person/entrepreneur to get a web page, they tell me they already have a FB page for their business and that’s enough, because everybody is on FB.
They’re not wrong, but it’s the idea that they don’t have pay for a site, get a domain name, decide on a theme and color scheme, provide pictures and content - they just do in-the-moment social media without any geeky nerdy stuff. The wish to avoid any geeky nerdy stuff they’d have to pay attention to is why their IoT is so insecure and why they wouldn’t want to host a server.

@anon15258403 , I don’t believe you’re naive about tech difficulties as much as naive about the majority of FB users, who aren’t ever going to leave the platform voluntarily.

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