>The biggest problem I ran into when trying to use Mastodon is the instance federation wars. Instances were banning other instances left and right from federati

>The biggest problem I ran into when trying to use Mastodon is the instance federation wars. Instances were banning other instances left and right from federating with each other due to content disputes (lolicon, "offensive speech," etc). Two things are needed for a decentralized social network to go mainstream. One is that it be technically competent, the other is that at be designed so that a large part of the population will actually enjoy using it. Both problems require very high ability. The problem is that the relatively small number of people who are both motivated and able to solve the first problem are generally techno-geeks who are average or below average in social ability,and so foul up the second problem terribly. However, the need for such a network is becoming widely enough known that I am pretty sure that rather soon we will get someone who can solve the second problem who will take up what the techno-geeks have been doing and produce a network that will become popular.