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by dbreunig 1281 days ago
I think you can't separate the scale of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc from their product. As has been demonstrated by the wave of "twitter replacements". But if you could separate scale, I agree. And I think that's the direction we're going: small, semi-private networks which can be moderated economically.

Only a crazy person would start a true Twitter replacement these days. The moderation costs and agony don't make the juice worth the squeeze.