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If people don't want their social network to be at the whims of a company, why not go all the way and adopt the Tent protocol? http://tent.io

I mean, I can see why from a developer's point of view. Those $30k a month are enticing. But why would users care?

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Devil's advocate: Maybe that $30K can pay for good UX which users definitely care about.

Funny you should mention that. I feel that crowd-sourcing user interface development by given an open access to an API will lead to new experiments with UI/UX.

I believe when Twitter was more open, we saw an explosion of clients and UI/UX. A couple of these innovations we hadn't easily seen before.

One of the hopes is that the App.net platform continues this experiment.

Users care because it's easier to pay $5/mo, than to set up and maintain your own infrastructure. Especially if you don't have any experience with servers (Think Grandma, Mom, Dad, non-techies etc).

Tent works like email-- some users run their own servers, but most sign up for a service that handles it for them (like https://tent.is)

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