Messages like that from figures with large followings could tempt more people to give App.net a chance.
A more serious challenge for the nascent network may be criticism within the tech community that App.net's approach is not different enough from Twitter’s. Both are private companies building social networks to make money, the argument goes, and App.net just does it in a slightly different way with some strong policy promises bolted on.
People taking that line say that the Web–and wider world–would benefit more from an effort to create decentralized social networks, as well as technology that allows communication between networks owned by different companies. That’s the position of Dave Winer, recognized by some as the inventor of the blog, as well as venture capitalist Albert Wenger, who puts it like this:
It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email today: it is fundamentally decentralized with nobody controlling who can email whom about what, anyone can use email essentially for free, there are open source and commercial implementations available and third parties are offering value added services.
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