I'd argue the only meaningful online social network is git, and maybe soundcloud/bittorrent, the rest is just somebody elses variable source of narcissistic sup

I'd argue the only meaningful online social network is git, and maybe soundcloud/bittorrent, the rest is just somebody elses variable source of narcissistic supply. You could use one of those p2p-blockchain messengers to talk to other people who use p2p-blockchain messengers, but then you are talking to people who use p2p-blockchain messengers. It's really a question of how much breadth you want/need. The internet itself reduces to a politically atomized individual sitting alone at a keyboard, struggling to connect, while being neutralized from all sides by random noise to stimulate both outrage and helplessness. It really is the totalitarian dream. You'd have to leave The Internet proper as we know it now, and create the next one, just as AOL/Compuserve were walled gardens that the internet grew outside of, a new network that resembled the 90's era internet could emerge in as little as a few years. Think about what Linux was: a new kernel for bare metal that broke out of the constraints of an OS landscape that looked a lot like today's internet giants. At the time, global communication was novel, today, privacy and regional networks are novel. Most linux users had a bsd/solaris/windows machine to connect to the legacy world, so you don't have to design the whole thing at once. A p2p-reddit that used a blockchain that operated with a kind of old fidonet/UUCP/nntp over bittorrent as transport could be a source of new community. A bare metal blockchain client kernel for open RISC and ARM processors that uses a wireless mesh, and includes a kind of regional pub/sub pattern would do it. The tech is there.