On: Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the ...

[pif]

TLDR: someone has to pay the bill. If users don't, advertisers will.

[Joeboy → pif]

Not a problem for email, which is P2P.

[sanswork → Joeboy]

Most peoples personal email these days is paid for by advertising.

[Joeboy → sanswork]

Sure, but it's not something that makes the P2P not work.

The "problem" is that users have to either administer a server, pay for a service or accept ads, and they mostly choose the latter. I'm not crazy about the fact they make that choice, but the fact the choice exists is not really a problem with the protocol.