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by soyiuz 2348 days ago
How would you lower the barrier to entry into something like Facebook or Amazon? Or Google trips for that matter? Or in this example, Hipmunk?
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Require federation. And prohibit dropping interoperability.

Remember that golden era when XMPP was federated across Facebook, Google Talk, AOL, etc. It wasn't perfect but did give users more options.