On the Decentralized Social Networks—A Useless Box, or an Emergence?

The author argues that decentralized social networks have been dominated by founder-centric consumer crypto built on dark-pattern marketing, and that a future social aggregation layer, where users port their social graphs across platforms, will emerge. The essay cites the author's own experience of re-creating the same X and Farcaster connections on Mastodon, Matrix, Discord and Telegram, and says Paul is cited for describing crypto as a subculture. It states that web3 social apps are often more time-wasting than curated X lists, and it calls for agentic tools to help users coexist with bots. The text is loosely structured and largely figurative, and it explicitly says it offers no direct solutions.