Please note, this is why stuff like Twitter and Facebook do so well. Those of you who are surprised, or discouraged, when the public chooses a walled-garden lik

Please note, this is why stuff like Twitter and Facebook do so well. Those of you who are surprised, or discouraged, when the public chooses a walled-garden like Twitter or Facebook, please remember how self-destructive some technologists have been, when promoting technologies that could server as decentralized alternatives to Twitter and Facebook. In this particular story, the villain is Dave Winer, but at other times there have been other technologists who have undermined the very thing they were nominally promoting.