"I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t" by Sarah Jeong https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
Great read, and this comment in a thread by her also hits home for me: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/990974005162094599
@nolan I liked the note at the bottom about the p2p distributed social network everyone owns: the contacts list on your phone, because Signal exactly describes itself that way—see "Social software needs a social graph" section at https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
There are so many possibilities to social media beyond Facebook's approach that we haven't explored… Mastodon and the broader ActivityPub ecosystem are quickly exploring that space, but alas, lock-in probably means that the best won't win…
