Reminder that the most successful social networks in the world are open, federated protocols built on unreliable links w/eventual delivery.
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@bascule Yep. Email, NNTP, Jabber, and IRC specifically. I think ATOM, HTTP, BGP, and DNS are also illustrative. -
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@obfuscurity@bascule you don't view your RSS reader as a similar dynamic to twitter or fb feeds? -
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@obfuscurity@bascule Well yes, *you* don't use it; doesn't mean it's not a widespread social network. Same goes for IRC. -
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@obfuscurity Nope, just said "the most successful". Twitter is 6 years old. FB is 8. Email is almost 40, with ~3 times as many users. -
@aphyr Actually I would argue that email is not a social network. Unless you think that phones /are/. - 5 more replies
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