I feel like an open social-graph could be used to create reputation and trust - opening up a lot of things and closing down many avenues of exploitation … or I

I feel like an open social-graph could be used to create reputation and trust - opening up a lot of things and closing down many avenues of exploitation … or I guess I used to feel that way, that the combination of FoaF (friend-of-a-friend), OPML and RSS would somehow usher in a type of freedom. But Social Media TM sucked all the oxygen out of the room and locked away any hope of such things being broadly interoperable or able to create any general value that wasn’t fully controlled.