[elago]

How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them.

A lot of successful things have had similarities to previous failures. The first step is to actually try something new instead of sitting around nay-saying everything.

Personally my opinion Youtube can keep the the drama rage videos, or they can fall off the face of the internet. I just want educational videos and music without constant ads, and I don't want to create some entity with absolute power to censor content for the rest of the internet.

[dragontamer]

XMPP / Jabber isn't doing so hot though. I wouldn't call it a "failure", but Facebook / Google, especially with the "hangouts" thing cutting out XMPP support, definitely reduced XMPP's userbase.

Decentralized can certainly fail, or at least shrink over time.

[hk__2]

> How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them.

That’s still infinitely more successful than decentralized social network attempts.