[vasilakisfil]

The same could have been said 30 years ago for an open source OS.

[beagle3]

or that decentralized social network called 'email'.

[threeseed]

Email is not a social network.

It is equivalent to a text message or phone call.

[DeepYogurt]

You might call it a network of social connections.

[TeMPOraL]

Also, people call e.g. Snapchat a social network. But by this definition, e-mail is much more of a social network than Snapchat.

[DeepYogurt]

I guess that gets at the point that the term social network is poorly defined.

[ab5tract]

Then again, we're still waiting for the year of the Linux Desktop.

[executesorder66]

Yeah, but at least that open source OS dominates on literally every other platform in the world.