The goal of decentralized social media is not to be another network like the massive ones that already exist, but to replace them all. Really to have them all become part of the universal social network.
If you're not afraid of a company somehow becoming the focal point of that enormous thing, perhaps where most people come to search it or see what's trending, you're not paying attention.
@wjmaggos But that makes me as being like saying the point of screwdrivers is to replace hammers.
No, centralized and decentralized platforms both have strengths and weaknesses, offering fundamentally different functionality, just as Twitter and Facebook offered fundamentally different user experiences.
They absolutely can and should coexist, each being specialized to what they do well, and giving users access to both environments.
They compliment each other.
