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it doesnt need to be 10x linear extrapolation, it just has to have 1 extra dimension. The decentralized dimension will never work however, because it is always illegal. Otherwise, gnutella, bittorrent, bitcoin, ipfs all could have become a decentralized "social network", aka "the n-th iteration of gopher/boards/forums"

> can be much more profitable than a centralized network.

The money comes from advertisers, not from users or views. Advertisers perennially spend the same amount (~1% of GDP, barring periods of war) to advertising companies. The pie is not expandable and is eaten by google and FB.



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