What an amazing post @techblogger! I just read it in one breath. Love the topic and the idea of sharing knowledge about this. Also, thanks a lot to @adsactly for sharing it!
I think the main problem in people is that they are the victims of their routines. We are used to clicking on that terms box, and we do know that we are accepting their demands and that our private information is not private anymore then. With all that, we still click on that box like it's nothing. And then, we are not satisfied how Facebook has information about us, etc. Simply, we are the victims of our routines. If we make people change our habit of doing that, that will be an enormous step forward.
Deep inside, people are striving for freedom and to be valued. If we look how FB is working, we're not getting freedom there nor we are valued. Trust me, I have a page with 9k followers and the problems I'm getting there are really annoying and made me want to stop caring for FB and also my page, that I worked day-night for a couple of months.
I'm happy I found Steemit and that I learned that time is valuable and that decentralized system is the future. We simply need to share knowledge about this and save people from the jaws of FB, IG and other centralized platforms. I think @adsactly is a perfect society that can be on the frontier of doing that.
I think DAO is the future, and the future is here. Facebook will start to lose their members much faster as time is going.
So here are my questions.
Will Facebook start to make problems to decentralized platforms? We know FB has so much power and they can harm us a lot if they want to (That's how I feel). Or FB will realize that DAO is the future and will change its ways?
I hope they will change their ways, but somehow I don't believe they will...
I believe we are both thinking along similar lines regarding the shift that is taking place about privacy and the advantages of decentralization... People willingly sign their rights of privacy away in exchange for access to a bear trap. I've got lots of friends that have already cancelled their Facebooks but guess what, it doesn't really go away, you can just go back to the platform click a button and you'll be back online with everything as it was when you left. Creepy?
I think Facebook has already making problems by banning crypto advertisements but I suppose that was just their first move in a war that is sure to come. At the end of the day what does Facebook represent and what does Steem represent and what sort of a world do people want live in? The future is made consciously or unconsciously... I do believe there is a new wave of criticality being supported by this paradigm shift and in my opinion it couldn't come too soon! You're a very sharp guy @whack.science, I look forward to engaging with you more here! Thanks for the kind words and thoughtful comments.
I wish there was a way to speed this shift up.
I am sooo beyond ready to see Fascstbook & Twatter join the AOL disk I used to get in the mail.
I am huge supporter of Gab.ai and have been on steemit for more than a year now.
Just cannot seem to get folks to divorce themselves from those two giants.
#DuckDuckGo is also another one I support. No more Wire Hangers! Dump Google.
Yes, I know, I got one old account on FB, I can open it now in a second. LOL, yes it's kinda creepy. If you deleted it, why they don't delete it also hmmm
People just need to know about Steemit kind of platforms... The more they know the soon they will join because it is hard to resist this. I'm just worried about this war that's already begun but I hope FB will change its ways and realize this is the future... Time will tell, we just need to be a part of that group that shares knowledge, freedom, love, etc. We need to try to do our best and see what people want in the end.
Thanks for a good chat @techblogger!
Hotel California just entered my mind,
which makes me recall the nearly bankrupt state of Gibson.
So if Facebook needs an example of what can happen when
adding features that are against the wishes of very loyal customers,
Gibson might be a clear cut example.
You have said it all. Well done.