Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the P2P dream

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the P2P dream
James Hudson, Hacker News, 2016/09/19
The problem, as we all know, is that "Facebook is simply a cage to hold and study us monkeys while we are being fed ads. These ads are targeted based on an analysis of our activity on Facebook." So why isn't there a P2P version of Facebook, where we could get the interactions without the intrusion? The problem lies in the limitations of the mobile web. More...