I'm disappointed that there's still not a popular federated social service like this. I know diaspora tried and that there are other projects that have attempte

I'm disappointed that there's still not a popular federated social service like this. I know diaspora tried and that there are other projects that have attempted work like this. I know that they'll never work until they're simple enough that my mom can use them, but I wonder if something like tor2web for a decentralized social network could offer an entry point for users who didn't want to operate their own federated node. Can a decentralized social service grow large enough to be useful without a dedicated growth / marketing team?