Twitter:StatusNet, Facebook:Diaspora -- do decentralised services gain much traction today? The most recent success I can see is bittorrent.
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Interestingly, I've reached a point where I get as many thoughtful responses to my content on Mastodon as I do on Twitter.
I agree it's very hard to make decentralised systems work, but my experience has been pretty positive.
Scuttlebot is a P2P replicating datastore designed to facilitate decentralised applications: https://scuttlebot.io/
The list of available apps is impressive for a young project: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-handbook/blob/master/applications.md
The apps remind me of IPFS' ambitions, although the protocol is different.
Building anti-abuse systems in decentralised communication tools: