The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.
Because so many “popular” platforms for social interaction dies after a generation or two. Either because the audience finds something better, or because the platform’s owner is bat shit insane and bets everything on something stupid.
Decentralized is definitely going to have a much better chance at survival.