> It doesn't scale to infinity like email does. The article clearly states you can turn your posts into e-mails > Someone else centralises the data and you hav

> It doesn't scale to infinity like email does. The article clearly states you can turn your posts into e-mails > Someone else centralises the data and you have to trust them to keep it safe. That goes for any public medium. At least these guys have a clearly stated mission not to harvest, package and sell your data. Also, see above for your email remark. > You don't know what they're doing with the data and you don't now who can access it. See both replies above > It's a whole new system for elderly Again, it can be turned into emails > It's another website that needs another login for my mum to remember, except she'll just use the same password again (and again), until one day it's breached. See above + unrelated issue > Why not (better) email? Because rebuilding email and convincing everyone to use that is a lot harder than trying to launch a new, experimental social media platform.