I do care about these people as persons, but not as interwebs citizens, not at all... that is, those of them who have something to say which they actually care about have a website, and with the inane nonsense many post on facebook, I am not "connected" either way.. if anything, that made me think less of people, that's one big reason I stopped paying attention to it.
Hmm, I guess that means diaspora wouldn't change anything there, for me. I'm not going to be another human TV for them, no matter the protocol.
But the fact that alternatives* exist and people don't use them just because they don't want to do the first step and actively pull their friends with them, is just sad? That's basically admitting Facebook can do whatever the it wants, since people are (or rather feel) trapped.
(and more than that; many of these networks allow you to sign up for updates of people on other pods of other networks.. Facebook isn't even thinking of playing in the same league, it's just that the UI is similar and has words and photos in it)
Hmm, I guess that means diaspora wouldn't change anything there, for me. I'm not going to be another human TV for them, no matter the protocol.
But the fact that alternatives* exist and people don't use them just because they don't want to do the first step and actively pull their friends with them, is just sad? That's basically admitting Facebook can do whatever the it wants, since people are (or rather feel) trapped.
(and more than that; many of these networks allow you to sign up for updates of people on other pods of other networks.. Facebook isn't even thinking of playing in the same league, it's just that the UI is similar and has words and photos in it)