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akoboldfryingyesterday at 12:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

> If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web.

And we would have kept a more inconvenient web, since without that incentive, Facebook etc. would never have had reason to pay for an army of software developers to implement and improve the site and servers to host it.


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mastermageyesterday at 6:40 AM

what improvements? The algorithm that radicalises people and keeps them seperated in bubbles? The Mass Data Harvesting?

inigyouyesterday at 12:25 AM

Are you implying something about Facebook is convenient?

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