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Why is distributed social apparently so hard that we couldn't buy it with $150,000?

Is sharing status really a lot more complicated than an RSS feed with public key encryption?



Yes. Yes it is.


I'm willing to believe that. Actually, I'm happy to believe that, because it just always nags on me. You would be doing me a big favor by pointing out how it is more complicated than that.




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