The problem you run into with a decentralized site is you have to mirror massive amounts of data. I think this is what killed usenet. Also spam is hard to fight

The problem you run into with a decentralized site is you have to mirror massive amounts of data. I think this is what killed usenet. Also spam is hard to fight. I wonder if a federated Reddit would work. Different subreddits could be hosted on different servers but the accounts could all be connected.