The future of how we socialize online is shaping up as we speak, and it’s all too important to leave things up to Meta and other social mega-enterprises. Just a cursory look at Meta’s history is enough to understand his tendency to seriously miss the mark.

Some companies like to use Web3 principles to fix Web2 bugs. And as an example of the great centralized organizations, Meta offers us some of the most useful examples of those mistakes.

Let’s look at three times when Meta failed to build the future of online social experiences.

It limited Open Graph

In 2010, Meta, which was still operating as Facebook at the time, launched its “Open Graph” protocol, which gives developers a network of links between friends to encourage other people…