>Who said it has to be general purpose? The author did and that's the context. The blog post was talking about sharing photos etc with "friends and family" s

>Who said it has to be general purpose? The author did and that's the context. The blog post was talking about sharing photos etc with "friends and family" so I took it be general purpose so it is adopted by a general audience. Yes, there are things like Mastadon instances run by volunteers that are funded by donations for topics like anime but niche social networks doesn't seem to be what the author is talking about. >Isn't that why we're currently discussing the matter on HN rather than FB? I think the plea was submitted to a technical site like HN instead of FB because it's trying to drum up interest from programmers who can _build_ the $20/year a general purpose replacement for Facebook/Twitter.