Decentralized Social

Social networks built on portable, user-owned identity and social graphs stored on open protocols rather than inside one company — so you can switch apps (clients) without losing your followers or content (e.g. Farcaster, Lens). Owning the graph enables native payments, token-gating, and new monetisation. The vision addresses platform lock-in, but faces steep hurdles: network effects, UX friction (keys/wallets), unsolved decentralised moderation, and recentralisation pressure.