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My guess as to his goal: he wants a decentralized Twitter alternative to exist and isn't particularly concerned with who pulls that off.

My guess as to his motivation: he feels guilty about the fact he helped turn Twitter into a huge greedy company instead of an open world-changing protocol like HTTP or SMTP.

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Thanks.

The problem is that he's fragmenting his efforts, it's like his effort capacity is 3 ants, and instead of telling all ants to pull the leaf in one direction, he tells each ant to pull in a different direction, so the leaf never moves.

Social networks are ALL about network effects. Split them up and they melt into obscurity. Combine them, they become untouchable.

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