[flabbergast]

> the next Uber or Facebook won't be a better Uber or Facebook but something totally different.

Based on what premise?

> I wish companies would stop trying to be better copies of existing services.

Why? Almost all creativity and improvement goes by creating a better version of something that exists already.

[buboard]

Probably because, if one wants a social network, there are already many good ones in the market. And the people who care enough about privacy to quit facebook, probably won't use any social network at all.