>Mere "thousands" doesn't seem like enough to get critical mass on a social network.
It's kind of like running for president of the United States and bragging that you got "hundreds" of votes.
It's kind of like running for president of the United States and bragging that you got "hundreds" of votes.
If you're going to blow up to the size of facebook you're just going to suffer from the very same problems. More diversity and more competition and more alternatives is what this is supposed to be part of. I think the point here is to build an ecosystem of saner social networks, not the next Franken-network.