[tinbad]

IMO what you describe can be summarized as a UX problem. Those things are there but it takes time and effort to find them, usually hard to figure out and therefor not adoptable by the masses. It's much easier to sign up for FB and start consuming through their slick UX. This is why big money wins time and time again. This is why Bitcoin, Linux, IRC, p2p, etc never had as much of a mass breakthrough as some had hoped, and likely never will.

[jsutton]

On the contrary, if it is a UX problem, then the Bitcoins of the world should eventually have a breakthrough if the tech is valuable, so long as the right UX can be found. It happened to IRC already (Slack). We just need more focus and investment on UX.

[no_identd]

Fix the Developer UX of TCP/IP by surplanting it with GNUnet (Which still needs some serious improvements) & RINA (that also goes for RINA), and the rest will fall into place.