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I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.
I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.
Matrix.org is likely the closest thing to an open source "Discord". Very decentralized, like IRC.

Being open-source alone isn't enough, as many (but not all) open-source projects suffer from the same problems of centralized governance.

Yeh did that in 2014 the day they filled my friends status feed with ads then news, where's my trophy?
Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention.

I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

same. I bounce between this and https://m.facebook.com depending on what I'm trying to get done
The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!
What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?
Ditto. I guess that makes us prophets?
> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us.

This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.

There is literally no real benefit to having and using Facebook.
More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Guaridian has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at theguardian.com.