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Your preassumption seems to be that centralised networks are somehow unavoidable in tech. I would argue otherwise - both Facebook and Twitter could exist decentralised - it would just be less profitable for the companies.


It being less profitable effectively makes it an impossibility without regulations.


When advertising revenue is involved less revenue does not mean poor. Look at how much money google and facebook have to waste!


I think the point is that no company will ever willingly choose to make less money unless they're forced to.


Now that we see what ad based, centralized social media / surveillance companies lead to, more and more people have reasons to take their business elsewhere.


Yeah, which is why it would be possible with regulations. If it wasn't enough to cover costs then it wouldn't be possible with regulations either.




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