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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by kabacha on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:16PM (#16881679)
No, there will always be a provider to webmail because there's demand for it. "Some webmail provider" is irrelevant, nobody is tlaking about people who run their own server here.

Federated social networks are like email: each instance is like the "webmail provider" you can pick and chose and some of them even come with their own clients and bells and whisltes.

Protocol doesn't need a business plan.

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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by scrollaway on Friday April 20, 2018 @08:17AM (#16884120)
Each instance needs a business plan (or a way for the user to benefit directly). Those that don't have one either disappear or never grow past a few dozen users which is not enough on its own to push the protocol's adoption.

How is this so hard to understand?

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