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by dude01 3066 days ago
The darn network effects keep people on the existing services and off of new ones. There have been protocols, like https://matrix.org/ (newer) and https://xmpp.org/ (older) .

If Facebook and Twitter were forced to interoperate with any of these other protocols then you could have a gradual migration. That's why you sure won't see that happen!