> I think the distributed answers have failed, sadly, mostly due to barrier to entry. Any new non-distributed social network would face an even higher barrier

> I think the distributed answers have failed, sadly, mostly due to barrier to entry. Any new non-distributed social network would face an even higher barrier to entry. Without support for the ActivityPub protocol, the social network would not be interoperable with existing fediverse accounts, including Mastodon's nearly 1 million active users. Instead, you would start from zero. Mastodon stats: https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon If you want to create a new social network, supporting ActivityPub would be the strongest boost you could give it from day one. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/