Now is the opportunity to start a decentralized, moderated alternative to Facebook

in #facebook4 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg's recent refusal to even flag fake and dangerous political posts by Trump and others has led to broader calls to stop using facebook. This means that the time is even more right for a Facebook alternative that is decentralized and moderated. I'd like to recommend Hive, but as long as there are bots, as long as accounts are not tied to one human being or business, and as long as those with more stake can have undue influence, Hive cannot be the alternative. Hive also doesn't have the software infrastructure, nor the culture, to replace facebook. But perhaps a fork of Hive would work. Is anyone interested in working on this? Now is the time to do it. It would be quite different from Hive and Steem, but likely could be much better than both. It would certainly be better than Facebook.