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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by manigandham on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:08AM (#13004317)
Monetization is a big deal because communications service for 1.7B people is expensive, and Facebook is actually a very efficient system compared to regular telecom.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by rhizome on Monday November 21, 2016 @03:29PM (#13008898)
A centralized communications service for 1.7B people is expensive. Not that decentralized or federated services would be cheap, but the costs would be dispersed.
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