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Why do you hate Facebook, Twitter, Instagram? Do you want to build your own?

1 points by w3clan ↗ HN
Many people hate Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and various other social networks.

All have one concern and it is "Privacy", but bigger problems for these giants are, if they don't play with your privacy, they won't be able to survive today or in the future.

If you would be there, how would you build it? and What would you do?

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andreicon
Do you want to develop an app?
w3clan
No, just wanted to know - why there is so much fuss about hating facebook, twitter, google etc.,
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cyborgx7
I would probably build something that looks like activityPub/mastodon. Now, how you make it take off for mainstream appeal, I can't tell you. Probably make a client with a new feature the entrenched people don't (or even better, can't) offer you.
w3clan
They are already there, why do you want to still build them? Based on people hatred, they should be joining these site rather than talking about hatred towards facebook and other social media website.
cyborgx7
I am already on those sites. What I'm saying is that replicating the feature set will never be enough, because then all you have is the same thing but without the people.

The benefits of privacy and less monopolistic control are intuitively something many people consider good, but too abstract for a lot of people to make the switch.

What I'm saying those services need, is a feature they don't get anywhere else. An inovation.

hos234
Check out Tristan Harris, Adam Alter, Tim Wu, Jaron Lanier's writings. They have already spent many years thinking about where social media fucks things up beyond just Privacy.
quirkafleeg3
I would rather they didn't exist than have them steal my data.