[PragmaticPulp]

> The problem with this counterexample is that these are fringe platforms. Thriving in their own right, resilient, but a rounding error in chat and web traffic, respectively.

Which makes them the perfect place to incubate misconceptions that everybody loves hosting servers and decentralized platforms.

If all of your friends are doing it and talking about it and enthusiastic about it, it feels like everyone agrees with you. Yet these places are basically a tiny filter bubble, not an accurate cross-section of the internet or general public.