Oh god, someone posts this sort of thing every couple months. Also tends to have high correlation with crypto-folk.<p>Decentralized social networks are a pipe dream. I'm sorry but no one wants to join you and your 50 shady hacker friends in a forum.<p>People want to go where their friends and family are. People's friends and families aren't going to figure out whatever stupid, inconsistent, under-designed UX people inevitably build for these sorts of things. The bar is extremely high.<p>Ideology seems to come before any practical notions of how people use products.