You're right, if it weren't prohibitively expensive to store social media data on Ethereum (for example) then that's exactly what all the decentralized develope

You're right, if it weren't prohibitively expensive to store social media data on Ethereum (for example) then that's exactly what all the decentralized developers (including myself) would already be doing. I checked the Gas price on ETH and quickly concluded that's not even remotely sensible to use it for social media networks, and the bigger problem is that if something became hugely popular that could drive up ETH gas prices too, so building on that infrastructure seems risky from a cost perspective.