My roommate likes to say the following, which I strongly agree with: "Several years ago, when Diaspora hit the big news channels, we hackers should have picked

My roommate likes to say the following, which I strongly agree with: "Several years ago, when Diaspora hit the big news channels, we hackers should have picked up the slack, joined en masse, building a decent early adopter user base while helping with the code. What we did instead was bickering about technical aspects of the implementation, pointing at the crudeness, and pretending that 'getting off all social media is the best'. And then we all joined Facebook."