I think the future of these decentralized networks is to make it trivial to set up and run your own instance, in much the same way as Napster allowed anyone to host a file streaming server. The problem with the current system is that new users must choose an instance in which to create an account, so they will tend to choose one of the larger ones. A better idea might be to have a few large instances only for user accounts with the rest of the functionality distributed automatically across all users who sign up to host.

These are just the thoughts of someone with a very basic knowledge of distributed networks and I don’t know if it’s even doable.

Ive been considering this aswell. I think it wouldnt take much compute to host your account, or a couple if you invite friends to join. Its a website and a database after all. The bigger chunk of space consumed will be any images etc you share across instances, as they all go back to the home instance (your server) but images dont take much space.

Im still new to this as well, but this is what i think how it works. Let me know how you go!