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by m-i-l·7y ago·view on hn ↗
Don't want to sound defeatist because I do think it is a good idea, but: The great thing about distributed social networking standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from[0]. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use case[1]. Even then there would be a risk that one dominant player would emerge and embrace, extend and extinguish the open standards[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

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I'm old enough to remember pre-Web hypertext systems and pre-SMTP email systems - so I live in hope....