[Alex2037]

>Any thoughts on main blockers and near-to-medium future developments on this matter?

the target audience of Instagram - regular people - has no incentive to use a decentralized alternative, no matter how solid and easy to use it might be, because centralization and censorship do not bother them.

we already saw it with the twitter exodus, which, despite a period of intense hyping up by the media, had accomplished nothing. regular people, for better or worse, simply don't give a shit.

[zanellia]

I think that's indeed one of the main problems, although I think people don't care because they don't understand what are the risks that directly concern them. A valid question would be at what point (if ever, and I want to believe that is going to happen, sooner or later) is the average user going to perceive the problems associated with centralized, censoring, opinion-steering platforms?

[timeon]

I think that for most part you are right. However Twitter does not seem to be good example. Just here on HN front page - there used to be at least one or to tweets per day. Now there are barely two per week. Even that is usually just from two accounts - Carmack or Karpathy.

[zanellia]

I have the feeling that social media adoption can be very volatile - that makes me hope that something decentralized and healthier could take over soon.