> So in practical terms how would one make such a platform widely adopted? I’m not sure if can be… - Developers working for free generally build things that t

> So in practical terms how would one make such a platform widely adopted? I’m not sure if can be… - Developers working for free generally build things that they themselves want to use. If you look at HN’s opinions on eg Discord vs IRC (or Dropbox vs rsync+cronjob), you can see how the venn diagram of “nerd goals” (e2ee, distributed, federated) and “everybody else goals” (I want to communicate with my friends) is almost two separate circles. - If you get paid by the users, nobody will use it (Remember app.net? Me neither) - If you get paid by advertisers, you have the same economic incentives that created Facebook