Get your loved ones off Facebook
It won&#x27;t be a popular opinion here but here it goes:<p>Well if it all goes to hell we will all be in the same handbasket. I&#x27;m simply not willing to cut people out of my life and miss out on things that are important to me because my data is mined and might be used against me. All these distributed platforms are a joke, no really they are technically cool but no one I care about is on them. Maybe if your entire social circle is technically sophisticated you can leave FB for something like diaspora (I don&#x27;t know if this is the &quot;new hotness&quot; or if there is something better but I really don&#x27;t care). My social graph is so far from able or willing to switch to something else it&#x27;s not even funny. Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account. In fact I&#x27;ve thought on multiple occasions that someone is hiding something if they don&#x27;t have one. You might hate me for that or hate the fact people think like that but good luck changing that mindset.<p>Look I&#x27;ve been on the other side of this, I paid for App.net (I think that&#x27;s what that twitter clone was called) and tried multiple distributed platforms but they all fall short or require too many compromises. I tried to get friends to use Signal but no one really cares. iMessage&#x2F;FB Messenger are just easier and everyone is on them. You want people to leave the &quot;evil facebook&quot; then make something better and easier to use. The best doesn&#x27;t win, the easiest does.