"I don't like blog posts as comments. I only read the first paragraph. App.net wasn't a good experiment, because they didn't allow federation, didn't even read and write RSS feeds. It didn't begin to have the potential of the kind of system I describe in the headline. They were trying to hold on to the ability to impose a business model, and for that there had to be lock-in. There was some clever marketing there, but ultimately there was no good reason for developers to build on it and therefore nothing interesting to draw users to it. Same with Ello. Suggest you use your blog." - Dave Winer