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... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the wo
by a3_nm 13y ago
... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the world in which everyone would be using a federated social network. Facebook is a local optimum from which it will be hard to move away.
- baddox 13y agoI completely agree. However, when my mother wants to locate an old friend from her childhood, my description of a currently non-existent widely-used federated social network is of little use to her, but Facebook seems to serve her quite well.