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by arethuza 3935 days ago
Wouldn't a open standard for social networks be preferable to simply yet another centralized system - an SMTP for social networks?
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You would need a big player with long-term vision to enable such a system. Google really can't do it, they have lost credibility in the space. We could see a surprising backbone for it like a massive cloud hoster (Thinking Cloudflare, Amazon, Rackspace).