Same thing is happening in crypto 

Every app is building a wallet and adding social features

Every wallet is adding social features and vertically integrating apps 

Every social app is building a wallet and vertically integrating apps

It's not unusual to have phases where many are building the same thing with their own twist.

Both Google and Apple built their own social networks when FB and Twitter were booming.

There were countless photo backup/sharing apps.

Then the move to gig economy, "Uber for x".

Then everything as SaaS

Now gen AI with chat interface.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

good point. i think it's even more pronounced now because the stakes of superapps and AI apps are (maybe magnitudes) higher

what was apple's social network? 👀

"Ping was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as being "sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes," but stating that "Ping is not Facebook" and "it is not Twitter," instead describing it as "something else ... all about music."

"Ping was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as being "sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes," but stating that "Ping is not Facebook" and "it is not Twitter," instead describing it as "something else ... all about music."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping

wow i vaguely remember this! thanks for sharing