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I already have a decentralized social network and it works great, it's called brain. If my brain is not capable of remembering people then are the connections r

I already have a decentralized social network and it works great, it's called brain. If my brain is not capable of remembering people then are the connections really meaningful? I don't mind using email, forums, IRC and various chat apps. And even better meeting people in the real world. It's great that everything is not unified, it would become too boring. I am sure some other technologies will come up but most of those solutions are trying too hard to be the next thing that replaces all the previous technologies.

mmirate 8y ago
That works well if your brain is specialized correctly to actually keep track of all this. During my undergraduate, I personally was semi-regularly accosted by strangers who knew me and, only after at least half a minute's conversation, I finally recognized as not-strangers. I don't handle people well (but computers are far easier to debug), so the more of it I can offload externally so that I can focus my brain on what really matters, the better. Comparative advantage.