We're all choosing centralised silos despite having personal preferences otherwise. This is a systems outcome, and not one we'll change individually. A distri

We're all choosing centralised silos despite having personal preferences otherwise. This is a systems outcome, and not one we'll change individually. A distributed social network may arise, we just haven't yet seen the initial conditions, value chains, and systems structures that will bring it about. This article gets excited about blockchain cryptocurrencies as the substrate, since money is a ubiquitous need. Well, it's worth pursuing. I'm still angry with Google & Facebook for killing off federated chat, which was the other nebula in which a new star protocol might've been born.