> And that's why decentralized, federated, or whatever social networks will never gain a large scale (>1 million or so) users. The governments of the world will

> And that's why decentralized, federated, or whatever social networks will never gain a large scale (>1 million or so) users. The governments of the world will never allow non-corporations to provide the money transfers necessary for people to "make a living" on such sites. Sure, if you ignore the simple fact that Twitter reached > 100M users when it had zero money transfer feature for the end users.