Since i work on this topic for a while, i am amazed to see how people are still comfortable with current centralised social media establishment. I know it's not a direct pain, but still, it's our personal data we are talking about!
I am referring to the latest news of 50M people personal data leak to Cambridge Analytica:
Early warnings by the
Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde:“We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg, who’s basically the biggest dictator in the world as he wasn’t elected by anyone."
https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve-lost-the-internet-its-all-about-damage-control-now/#.tnw_nAo82bCVFossbytes:"Cambridge Analytica (CA) that grabbed the information from the Facebook profiles of around 50 million users without their consent."
https://fossbytes.com/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-trump-election/Financial times: “Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post,” he tweeted. “Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as ‘surveillance companies’.”
https://www.ft.com/content/c1f326a4-2b24-11e8-9b4b-bc4b9f08f381Edward Snowden:"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices."
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/975106627513729024What's amazing, that the technology for decentralisation is already here and does not seem to kick-in just yet