Nearly 1 out of 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook account over privacy concern

[Darthagnon]

There is an alternative to Facebook that everyone uses. You even need it to set up a Facebook account: email.

Email can be presented in any GUI - e.g. compare how Outlook, em Client, Spike, DeltaChat present email. I highly recommend DeltaChat, which is an open-source project that gives email an appearance like FB Messenger with extra encryption. Email also includes most of the features/metadata that Facebook uses - Photo sharing and compression? yes. Date/Time on posts? yes. Sharing with multiple recipients? yes. Threaded replies? yes. Graphical reactions? yes (native in FB, webp stickers in email). etc., etc.

I've often thought, why not make a GUI for email that looks like Facebook? Everyone will already have an account. And it will be platform-agnostic (you can use any email service you want). It will be more private than Facebook, if it implements PGP/AutoCrypt. DeltaChat and Spike are the beginning.

Code:

https://delta.chat/en/ https://www.spikenow.com/