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Over the past few decades, an aggressive market rivalry has led to the emergence of multiple competing, \u201cclosed\u201d OSNSs. As a result, users are trapped in the walled gardens of their OSNS, encountering restrictions about what they can do with their personal data, the people they can interact with, and the information they get access to. As an alternative to the platform lock-in, \u201copen\u201d OSNSs promote the adoption of open, standardized APIs. However, users still massively adopt closed OSNSs to benefit from the services\u2019 advanced functionalities and\/or follow their \u201cfriends,\u201d although the users\u2019 virtual social sphere is ultimately limited by the OSNSs they join. Our work aims at overcoming such a limitation by enabling users to meet and interact beyond the boundary of their OSNSs, including reaching out to \u201cfriends\u201d of distinct closed OSNSs. We specifically introduce<jats:italic>Universal Social Network Bus (USNB)<\/jats:italic>, which revisits the \u201cservice bus\u201d paradigm that enables interoperability across computing systems to address the requirements of \u201c<jats:italic>social interoperability<\/jats:italic>.\u201d USNB features<jats:italic>synthetic profiles<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>personae<\/jats:italic>for interaction across the boundaries of closed and open and profile- and non-profile-based OSNSs through a<jats:italic>reference social interaction service<\/jats:italic>. We ran a 1-day workshop with a panel of users who experimented with the USNB prototype to assess the potential benefits of social interoperability for social network users. Results show the positive evaluation of users for USNB, especially as an enabler of applications for civic participation. 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