It would be great if peers competed on features, anti-bot tactics, reliability, etc. Perhaps large social sites should be working on an open social data interch

It would be great if peers competed on features, anti-bot tactics, reliability, etc. Perhaps large social sites should be working on an open social data interchange protocol instead of asking for protected regulation. Free the game instead of enshrining the players. Closed social network platforms and protocols exhausterbated consolidation. They disallow competition. The market is hostile. The market will not standardize, and actively worked against it (RSS). Open the protocols. Let the kid down the street compete with Facebook again. Let me pay $5/mo for a small player in Norway to host a custom Whateverstadon with strict peering rules. Let DNS be the registry.