@jacek

I think decentralized social is a strong idea, just like hydrogen cars are a strong idea. The challenge is that today’s systems already work well enough. Most people don’t switch unless something clearly breaks or becomes much worse. So adoption usually comes from one of two things: either the current system fails in a big way, or the new product is meaningfully better, not just different under the hood. There are also real-world constraints. Existing social platforms have massive infrastructure, distribution, and deep relationships across ads, governments, and partners. That creates a lot of resistance to change. And importantly, a lot of the actual innovation people care about, new content formats, better discovery, stronger communities, better incentives, can all be built on either centralized or decentralized rails. So decentralization by itself usually isn’t the deciding factor for users. It’s not that decentralization is a bad idea. It’s just that for most people, it only matters if it creates a clearly better product.

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