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by int_19h 1709 days ago
What's really needed is a legal requirement for open APIs and federation. The only reason why Facebook is so hard to drop once you've been on it for a while, is because they have your social graph locked in - either everybody switches together, or people get "left behind". If they are forced to interoperate with others, that's no longer an issue - and I suspect that this alone would be enough for healthy competition to shrink them down, without any forcible splitting.