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Re:Ask HN: Will distributed social network work? Are they late? by keiferski on Saturday September 22, 2012 @07:31AM (#4557641)
The problem is that users don't care whether a social network is distributed or not. The overwhelming majority of users don't know what XMPP is, or why they should care.

Also, the lack of a choice is sometimes a good thing. Personally, I don't want my friends to be on 10 different social networks. Facebook isn't perfect, but I like the fact that it is uniform.

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Re:Ask HN: Will distributed social network work? Are they late? by sundar22in on Saturday September 22, 2012 @10:56AM (#4557961)
It's like email. It should not matter in which social network our friends are, we should be able to communicate with each other.

Imagine that today you can only send email from gmail to gmail account. If that is the state today, won't we think of decentralizing email now?

Having a choice is a good thing, and one size would not fit all.

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