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Hot take: You should build social apps so people can be social, not so you can eventually trap people in a room they no longer want to be in
Maybe the real moats are the drawbridges we'll build along the way? In my latest augment piece, I re-think "moats" for the open social web by seeing what @standard.site, @blackskyweb.xyz's Acorn, and bridges like @ap.brid.gy + @wafrn.netย have done for the ecosystem.