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@rauschma very insightful! Thank you, Axel! It's a good overview of different strategies and protocols. However, I still have that feeling that social network developers and advocates focus on the wrong things: protocols and servers. IMHO, we need to focus on how we store data in the way that it belongs to users no matter where we store it. That's the reason I work on a content-addressable storage. Protocols are just ways to synchronize the decentralized storages. We can have all sorts of protocols to synchronize our storage work simultaneously, including sneakernet and pigeon mail. As soon as I, as a user, can prove that the message is from my friend (or from a friend of my friend), I don't care how I got it. And a hash as an address helps me to ignore duplicates.