My point is about the economics, nit the business perspective. micro not macro.^ The most revenue generating social network does not win. Whoever wins wins. Th

My point is about the economics, nit the business perspective. micro not macro.^ The most revenue generating social network does not win. Whoever wins wins. The value of what wins to advertisers determines how much winners win, but it does not determine winners. Also, advertising revenue does almost nothing to fund content creation on these networks. The "supply side" economics of FB, YouTube & twitter is completely non-existant. The bar is essentially @ 0, so no matter what competes with them this can only get better. The relevant point for this topic is that RSS' value or lack thereof to advertisers has almost no impact on its chances of success. Podcasts, OTOH. These are an existence proof for (1) RSS being useful in the context and (2) decentralised distribution networks works reasonably well for content/media producers. ^macroecobomics is about the money system: inflation, money supply...