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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 24

    So let’s decide what we want: do we want a factory farm (Facebook) to be kinder to its livestock (users) or do we want to fund ethical alternatives with business models that do not treat people as livestock to be farmed. We can (should) do both, but the latter is being ignored.

    10:35 AM - 24 May 2018
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      1. Janine Hogendoorn‏ @jane1170 May 24
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        This is how it is with #facebook, #google etcpic.twitter.com/GSyB4kiHuA

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      1. Jason Tashea‏ @jtashea May 24
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        Are people willing to pay for the ethical alternatives? This seems to be the problem with all of the ethical Facebook alts.

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      2. Bobcoin Söderqvist‏ @bjorn_js May 24
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        After several attempts like "I have 50 bucks", Diaspora, I forget all the other alternatives, I have the impression that most people are "happy" with Facebook.

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      2. Julia Thomaschki‏ @j_thomaschki May 24
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        @jtashea people shouldn't have to pay to be using alternatives, in contrast they should get paid by the companies that are promoting their content. Split the revenue with the interface platform et voila a (more) ethical buisinessmodel

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      3. Jason Tashea‏ @jtashea May 24
        Replying to @j_thomaschki @aral

        Sure, I keep hearing this idea get pushed, but I’m not seeing it implemented at scale. Why is that?

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      4. Julia Thomaschki‏ @j_thomaschki May 24
        Replying to @jtashea @aral

        Perhaps the lack of platforms that have a sufficient number of active users to be interesting for companies to advertise on..

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      5. Brian Schildt‏ @brianschildt May 24
        Replying to @j_thomaschki @jtashea

        We are investigating that path - Using Findx search (in the Brave browser) both we as a platform and the publisher in our video search will be rewarded from the users wallet - overtime the user can fill the wallet by whatching payed content/ads- morehttps://get.findx.com/blog/findx-is-now-a-private-search-engine-in-the-brave-browser/ …

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      1. John Vore‏ @johnmvore May 25
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        <raises hand> Doing the latter.

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      1. Frank Treacy‏ @thefrank06 May 24
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        I don't like Facebook's business model. But my friends and acquantainces are on Facebook and 99% of them are not on any ethical alternative. Beating Facebook is very difficult, mostly because "do sth about being farmed" is not high on the average person's priorities. Hard truth.

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      1. Janine Hogendoorn‏ @jane1170 May 24
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        Second option of course. Happy to pay for that too

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      1. #CountAllTheVotes - The Crazy Swiss Engineer‏ @CrzSwissEng May 24
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        People pay for Netflix, after all. I'd pay a couple bucks/month for an alternative without farming

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