- a distributed, technically suitable protocol existed for describing yourself and your network?
- that you had control of it? And thats... bad?
- that large social networks saw interoperability and decided No! - it would unprofitable if we didnt own the whole game?
Foaf was - and is - a very good vocabulary for a social network.
Having a corporate centralist version lead to what exactly? Qnanon? Antivax? Neonazis? Astroturf?
While foaf would not have been immune to this, the seperation between protocol and filtering aggregator would have at least provided a choice.
- a distributed, technically suitable protocol existed for describing yourself and your network?
- that you had control of it? And thats... bad?
- that large social networks saw interoperability and decided No! - it would unprofitable if we didnt own the whole game?
Foaf was - and is - a very good vocabulary for a social network. Having a corporate centralist version lead to what exactly? Qnanon? Antivax? Neonazis? Astroturf?
While foaf would not have been immune to this, the seperation between protocol and filtering aggregator would have at least provided a choice.