When you are part of this Community here at HN, you are no normal user, but, compared to most of the 7 billion other people, member of the tech elite, even when not in SV. As a member of that group, one should be a bit more open to new ideas, way of doing things and exploring where the world might move to. Currently, after years of ignorance, decentralized networks start to become a thing and now is the time to be one of the early explorers of that scene (similar to E-Mail in 1978, PC programming in 1982, net surfing in 1994, App programming in 2008). Sure, the fully surveilled, full commercial networks like Facebook or Twitter still offer a lot of use. But yet we as „tech elitists“ should not ignore the growing subcultural trend to decentralization.

Hacker news exists off of facebook. The fact that this “network” of users exists should be a testiment that communities can develop off of facebook.

What would need to happen is that all of "my" friends would have to start using another service.