<story><title>Decentralized Social Networks Won&apos;t Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nstart</author><text>Just in case any bright eyed hopeful person is reading this, please don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;ah shucks&amp;quot; and go away. Some of the biggest things in the internet including the protocols the internet lives on were never envisioned as something that would change the life of billions of people. They were initially created to solve a problem for a small group and then grew into something much bigger over time. Please please don&amp;#x27;t back away from this problem just because some article says it&amp;#x27;s going to be challenging.&lt;p&gt;Solve it for yourself.&lt;p&gt;Post on your own blogs on your own servers.&lt;p&gt;Solve it for others.&lt;p&gt;Help others get set up with their own servers.&lt;p&gt;Create solutions for people&lt;p&gt;Make attempts at creating decentralized solutions. Even if a 1000 people use it, someday we might crack the code to getting people off the walled gardens.&lt;p&gt;Basically, if that article sounded like a demotivating blow to your hopes, please flip the bird at it, and keep working to solve this problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unicornporn</author><text>Decentralized social networks is often an alternative to profit driven social networks.&lt;p&gt;The social giants today optimize their offerings so that we spend as much time as possible using them[1] to maximize profits. That doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily make us happier. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t a a social that frees time and doesn&amp;#x27;t create addiction and depression be something to strive for?&lt;p&gt;I think we should stop counting success in time spent and numbers of users.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.1843magazine.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.1843magazine.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;the-scientists-who-mak...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Decentralized Social Networks Won&apos;t Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nstart</author><text>Just in case any bright eyed hopeful person is reading this, please don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;ah shucks&amp;quot; and go away. Some of the biggest things in the internet including the protocols the internet lives on were never envisioned as something that would change the life of billions of people. They were initially created to solve a problem for a small group and then grew into something much bigger over time. Please please don&amp;#x27;t back away from this problem just because some article says it&amp;#x27;s going to be challenging.&lt;p&gt;Solve it for yourself.&lt;p&gt;Post on your own blogs on your own servers.&lt;p&gt;Solve it for others.&lt;p&gt;Help others get set up with their own servers.&lt;p&gt;Create solutions for people&lt;p&gt;Make attempts at creating decentralized solutions. Even if a 1000 people use it, someday we might crack the code to getting people off the walled gardens.&lt;p&gt;Basically, if that article sounded like a demotivating blow to your hopes, please flip the bird at it, and keep working to solve this problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>I have given some thought to this problem and I think it&amp;#x27;s technically solvable. The main problem is that it would be non-profit so less incentive to build it. Anyone want to kick around ideas?</text></comment>