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It's cheap to start a social network. I run a Pleroma and a Mastodon server and you can find the links in my profile.

But don't fool yourself into thinking my little instances have any sort of effect compared to the big mega-corps of Google/Facebook and Twitter.

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I don't. Making something popular requires a tonne of work. Again, this has always been the case, even for traditional physical products. If you're going to make a competitor for something, expect an uphill battle.

As I said, there were social networks before Twitter, Facebook, and Parler, and there will be social networks afterwards.

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