still believe that the ideal decentralized social network would look like IRC. IRC never reached mainstream for many reasons (no rich clients, UX, no mobile etc). centrally governed servers that vote to bridge w/ each other on an open protocol and fix where IRC failed above imo

https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

Mastodon is just one instantiation.

I never tried Fediverse, I'd like to see servers where each server has its own governing body, rich multimedia clients, mobile support, and the ability for arbitrary servers to be able to vote/disconnect with each other in a decentralized format. if fediverse has that, I'd at least look into it to see why I'm wrong