[techmagus]

Made good points but missed the fact that social networks like Facebook and Google started like decentralised networks today. In the Philippines, Facebook wasn't popular at all when Friendster and MySpace were kicking. It was only after the demise of Friendster, and the MySpace was forgotten, that Facebook gained attention. It's similar for decentralised networks. Secondly, decentralised networks are good as it is. It does not have to be the "next Facebook" or the "next Twitter", although many such networks and writers dubbed these as such. Slow growth and adoption is better than an explosive one. These networks are being developed generally for free and offered for free, with no ads whatsoever even. The developers are few and they do it during their free time. Thus a slow adoption is to its advantage.

I use decentralized networks, even used to run my own instance.