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At Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:50:45 -0800, Tom Johnson wrote: > > > but it would be difficult to replace the social network around the > projects. > > Especially difficult now that GitHub is where the community is. It's > technically possible to build a social web that works on a decentralized > basis, but it may no longer be culturally possible. Platforms are hard to > get down from. Maybe. Most people today use internet email, not Compuserve email; they use the web, not AOL keywords; and they use jabber/xmpp, not ICQ. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that people will eventually leave twitter for a status.net implementation, or github for something else. best, Erik