Agreed, we need to be honest about which problems we are actually trying to tackle. Decentralization doesn't tackle the "how do we long term maintain a social

Agreed, we need to be honest about which problems we are actually trying to tackle. Decentralization doesn't tackle the "how do we long term maintain a social network" problem. No decentralized protocol does. Which means, ultimately, these servers are slowly being turned off by their owners in 10 years or whatever the case, and we're back at it with "how do we solve the current problem of online forums disappearing?"