In my opinion decentralization is a non-feature. I.e., I don't believe in people waking up in the morning and thinking "gee, that app would be 10x better if decentralized". What people care about is (1) getting better connections with friends and colleagues. Here lunchclub is doing an amazing job. (2) getting better news then have a look at finclout.io.
If you are a regular posted for whatever motivation, I don't think that the current state of social media works well.
Decentralized Social as an implementation of a Decentralized Social Network is really terrible because it doesn't add anything to the user experience besides a pay-layer which in reality brings out the worst in people "Please buy my coin'
If the words "decentralized" are anywhere in your marketing of a decentralized social network, you have already lost ;p
I didn't intend to mean that by making a social network decentralized it would be 10x better. What I mean is, that by making a decentralized social network it opens up possibilities that are just not possible in a centralized network (or at least very hard).
And those possibilities are real tangible benefits to users/creators that don't directly have anything to do with 'decentralization'.
As I wrote in my original post, I like site like Lunchclub.
Because it is a "single-player" experience where I don't need constantly be hyper-engaged, but can go in and say 'today I want to do x".
Which feels more natural to me.
Let's say I enter a lunchroom at work. There is Cathie from Accounting, Mark from Sales, and Marlene from IT. I can chose with whom I will eat lunch based on what I want to talk about that day. In opposite of yelling into the room / writing on the wall "Hey everyone, I want to talk about my a-ma-ze-ba-ll-s performance the other day" and then wait who replies / likes first to choose lunch.
