[phoe-krk]

> I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform

What about decentaralized platforms that are not blockchain-based? The Fediverse (a part of which is write.as) achieves this goal of being decentralized without using any kind of blockchain technology.

[jonmaim]

Thanks for mentioning the Fediverse.

Who is paying for server costs?

[phoe-krk]

The owner of each instance pays the costs for hosting a given instance. So, basically, domain + hosting.

Note that these costs can be really low; Pleroma[0] can be run on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a $2.50 Vultr instance[1]

[0] https://pleroma.social/

[1] https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/