If I were benevolent dictator of the net in 2018, here would be my first decree.#
Make it so that leaving Facebook is just a matter of signing out. And that does not mean leaving your friends behind.#
This would would make it possible for anyone to compete with Facebook, which would keep Facebook (and their competitors) from grabbing too much power. It's Facebook's lock-in that makes the problems inexorable.#
And Facebook would have to support all the protocols they currently don't support. Most important -- linking. That's how their walls are implemented. It's probably a fix they could implement in 24 hours. And would work wonders at turning the lights back on outside Facebook.#