> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.
This is the crux of the challenge.
Plenty of people are concerned about Facebook, not only for privacy concerns but also for its impact on public discourse. [1]
But any viable alternative must be mindlessly easy.
Salim Virani’s suggestion of phone and email instead of Facebook works in part — replacing Facebook as a messaging medium — but it doesn’t address the use of Facebook as a personalized news feed informed by your social graph.
We need something better. Something with a good mission [2] but orders of magnitude better.
[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alter...