Perhaps. But all the core protocols of the web were done using government money and standardized as a public good. I don't see why social media protocols should

Perhaps. But all the core protocols of the web were done using government money and standardized as a public good. I don't see why social media protocols should not have some base level standard of interoperability, given their importance in society. I don't begrudge FB and Twitter their success. But I think that, as with the previous generations of captains of industry, it is time that the winners take into account the public good. Something like the living web standard for social media would be nice.