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This is similar to the Twitter/Facebook problem. Yes, they're not true monopolies, no one is forcing you to use Facebook. You can use whatever geeky federated p
by rhinoceraptor 7y ago
This is similar to the Twitter/Facebook problem. Yes, they're not true monopolies, no one is forcing you to use Facebook. You can use whatever geeky federated project is in vogue, and talk to the three other people who also use it.
But if you want to talk to your grandparents, you need to use Facebook.
- krapp 7y ago>But if you want to talk to your grandparents, you need to use Facebook. Or skype, or email, or text or call them or maybe just visit once it a while. Facebook doesn't have nearly the degree of monopoly on general human communication or mass communication that HN argues it does, neither does Twitter. If Trump weren't addicted to posting there, no one would care about Twitter.