It is in fact very instructive, given that email is an open federated protocol but it doesn’t matter because the industry has centralized. We now have several

It is in fact very instructive, given that email is an open federated protocol but it doesn’t matter because the industry has centralized. We now have several new social networks based on the ideas of open protocols and federation. They are not yet large enough to attract too much attention but we’ll see if the story rhymes.