This is something that's been on my mind for the last couple days that I think the rest of you need to consider.
I've used the internet since 1992. Those of you old enough to remember the internet in those days know what this means. It means Lynx. NCSA Mosaic. Gopher. Usenet. FTP. Mail you actually had to download. Netscape and Yahoo didn't exist until '94. For most of the later 90's if you wanted to have a website you had something on Geocities. Tripod. Lycos. Search engines were crap and indexes like Yahoo/ODP were manually curated. If you wanted to talk to people you went on Yahoo chat groups and put up with weirdos, or went on phpBBs and put up power-trippy moderators.
I have seen multiple generations of not just sites, but site technologies and paradigms come and go. Facebook is no different.
It is literally just a website. Nothing more. It can be replaced as casually as typing in a different url.
But muh convenience...
But nothing. I never asked for the internet to exist and was getting along fine without it.
YOU, (Facebook) existed in my universe to the extent that you were useful to me.
Getting people you know to use a competitor.
Got some money?
I know where to rent cabinet space and fiber from some people who do not give a fuck as long as you can pay.
Yes. I have little personal investment in the outcome of this culture war.
I suppose I've been a bit vague in the past so I'll give you a bit of detail. Y'ever heard of AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Well... I wrote basically that, ten years before AWS did, in three months, for a startup that had no interest in bringing it to market. We wanted an internal microservices cloud, the companies that offered such things wanted waaaaay too much money, so I built one. The business we were actually doing worked out great and we sold the company. Then the culture changed and I left with my FYIFV money.