just remember, it's not a "decentralized social protocol" until the smart contract fuses are burned. 🌉

one thing that take people a while to internalize is how social contracts are really the void which binds a protocol. 

standards, smart contracts, blockchains etc are all important pieces that make it harder to break these contracts casually, but do not make it impossible. 

if you have sufficient social consensus you can break all of them (see DAO fork, Bitcoin Cash fork etc)

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there are certaintly intersubjective scenarios, but the entire point of blockchain smart contracts is the ability to bind code to a larger more established social contract like the ethereum consensus mechanism.

before: i run the server, you obey the social contract with me

after: i bind my commitment to ethereum, we both obey the social contract with ethereum

we can always fork ethereum but that's a much much much bigger bar than changing the social contract of some server i run.

sure everything is social consensus, but not all social consensus is made equal, and the real utility is being able to build one source of really good consensus that we can all bind to and build on top of.