Good read; Respect.

Now please consider EOS and it's heralded (potential) partnership with 'ONO' as a direct bid to launch a SM Protocol that could potentially (and most effectively -- see Everipedia Airdrop) become blockchains 'Facebook' as opposed to say it's 'ICQ', or 'Friendster', and I won't bore readers w/ excessive citations. Just suffice it to say, that whenever DL is presented with the subject he gets a gleam in his eye, like he knows something we do not.

Consider also the serendipitous timing of Zuck's recent appearance in front of US Senate!

Think H-Wood could have scripted it any better? To me, this reeks of Guerrilla Marketing -- And prep for Blockchain's Red-Carpet Appearance.

And, while there are too many 'Demi-Gods/Goddesses, Titans , Rock-Stars, and contributors without whom we'd never reached today -- including you and me! (Don't sell your selves short small people, without us, what? We're all part of a large (presently dysfunctional) Fam here !

But the point is, Dan Larimer could not have stood more heroically, or more gallantly in the respective shadows all the months while he was being (legally) 'defamed -- via both libel and slander. And all he had was his core team, his 'True Believers', and an oft- repeated, ever-inspiring life mission mantra:

"My entire mission in life is based upon finding crypto-economic solutions for securing life, liberty, property, and justice for all,"

which Vitalik, (Bless That Boy too! #morelovelesshate )shallowly and puerily dismissed DL's Mantra/Philosophy as:

"Bullshitology"

I think Chris Sacca and i agree on the point that the Bill Gates' of the world,, the Zuck's, the Vaynerchuk's, and countless others who forgo formal education can do just fine, but when one becomes arrogant (as Vitalik here), daring to presuppose that b/c he's may be genius in appled maths, quantum physics, etc, that that 'knowledge' is simply transmogrified and somehow reduced to irrefutable philosophical postulates, like:

BullShitosphy, is slightly 'less than profound'.

(Also, in case you didn't know VB, 'Transmogrification' = French for 'Mistake'.)

So yeah, read some real pholosohphy -- Platon's Republic, followed by his 'Apology', in which Socrates, in pseudo-self-defense, apologizes to the People of Athens..

Then, go into some world history, Like:

'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'

and (one you will surely know): 'Zemlya i Volya' and

"tierra y libertad!"

DL, with his words, is walking stride for stride with History's Titans. Hence, there is nothing incongruous with his simplified expression of truth. As a Master yourself, VB you mus be aware, even dimly, that what you both are doing is changing/charting the course of human history, especially as the magnitude of what we, from our vantage point, can confirm is nothing short of revolutionary. Sure, makes sense not to parade in the street proclaiming the end of imperialism, but is it not acceptable, and in fact, a duty, to tell the story as we see it?

In any case, I applaud VB's honesty, sincerity, and creativity. Just as I applaud DL, and Charles H, etc etc etc....

The thing that makes ZERO sense to me-- for those of you literally changing the world , that you would still be concerned with such a meritless pursuit: EGO.

DL invented 'DPOS' , was texting with Satoshi Himself back in 2009 and opening the doors of our minds to corridors/landscapes / star-scapes not accessible to less patient, insufficiently 'chiseled' (by relentless curiosity), and nearly devotional adherence to the dev of viable solutions.

Same can be said of VB :

'Genius Child' (See poem by Langston Hughes). The blockchains' own version Steve Job ( to DL's Elon Musk -- Yeah lack of parallelism, but (sorry Bill) comparing DL to Bill Gates, rings offensive.

Nevertheless, I do submit, that future generations will marvel that these Greats did what they did, and that it was one of the critical junctures in the 6M year-old human experiment.

And to answer the original point of this inquiry:

YES, if the EOS community can fulfill the mandate and launch the platform, the most ambitious, decentralized, Social Media Platform in history will certainly be forthcoming.