Posted on 10/03/2021 11:18:08 AM PDT by RicocheT
I’m the founder of MeWe, the ad-free social network with data privacy and no content amplification or newsfeed manipulation. MeWe competes directly with Facebook. On June 27, 2019, I wrote an op-ed in this newspaper headlined “I Compete With Facebook, and It’s No Monopoly.”
I’ve changed my mind. MeWe continues to succeed, albeit on a modest scale. Two years ago the platform had five million users and no revenue. Today it has nearly 20 million users and is breaking even with millions of dollars in revenue. Yet despite MeWe’s growth, Facebook’s troubling actions over the last two years have caused me to change my position, for six reasons.
So I’ve changed my mind. Facebook is a monopoly like the world has never seen. It has more power to influence, manipulate and change thoughts, opinions, votes and purchase decisions on a global scale than any nation or government. It has an army of lobbyists who stymie effective regulation or oversight.
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My good guess is MeWe’s platform will improve considerably. I’m way too busy to devote time to figuring out the nuisances of MeWe at present, but many former Freepers took to it like a duck to water.
I use MeWe. It’s okay. I use it somewhat differently than f’book. I have a much lower profile. But that’s by choice.
Thanks! I don’t have the time either. MeWe was easy to set up but for some reason not very inviting. So I think I’ll stick with FB for friends and family.
bump
brave.com
Leave the FFx plantation
+1
Newsmax is gone from youtube.!!
Leave the Microsoft plantation!
Normally I use a Mac; it wasn't convenient at the time. Think I mentioned that upthread somewhere.
Well....she’s dead, Jim.
For the moment anyway.
On the bright side, Facebook, Instagram and everything they own is down completely right now and has been for at least two hours.
I’m on Ubuntu when I’m not working.
Within the last year I tried out the Brave browser and like it better than FFx and Chrome. Brave is a secure fork off of Chromium that is built you secure your privacy online, and has a compact footprint.
I run it on everything... Win10 work computer, my Ubuntu machine, and my mobile phone.
Maybe give that a try.
using facebook should be prosecuted as a hate-crime.
You have NO excuse for still using it? want to keep up with you kids or grandkids? call them or email them.
If the only interaction you have with your ‘friends’ is on social media, then they are not really your friends at all.
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