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One could argue that a social network must necessarily be a monopoly to be useful to users unless cross site communication between multiple social networks was
by rcar1046 8y ago
One could argue that a social network must necessarily be a monopoly to be useful to users unless cross site communication between multiple social networks was mandated.
Just as 5 different companies each listing 20% of the residential phone numbers wouldn't make sense. The more completely a social network covers the population the more useful it becomes to users.
- lallysingh 8y agoBut it'd be a poor argument. Email does multi-provider interop well.
- amelius 8y agoYes, they should force Facebook to support the ActivityPub protocol. Not sure what that would mean for privacy/GDPR though ...
- akvadrako 8y agoIf you have rather low standards. Email works just well enough, but it's turning into walled gardens, has no de facto e2e encryption, still has a spam problem and has a terrible UI for non-technical users in group settings.
- wu-ikkyu 8y agoThe same argument can and has been made for the economy, government, religion etc. But as we've seen, too much centralized power in the hands of the few has lead to some of the greatest mass human suffering in history.