Why decentralized social networking never makes it
Honestly? Because decentralized social networks are usually implemented by people who have an inaccurate mental model of what the population at large wants in a social network. There&#x27;s a lot of noise online about how this feature or that feature is addictive tracking-based anti-civilization satancode or something, but outside a loud and hardcore fringe, users actually want this stuff. Good feed ranking depends, for example, on building accurate models of user preferences.<p>If you listen to the loud fringe, you&#x27;ll end up with a product only the fringe wants to use.