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I think you can replace all social media with a decentralized version, except YouTube. Reason is cost and monetization.
It's like replacing Amazon for online shopping. Even a coalition of every competitor couldn't touch YouTube.
It's probably easier to replace Amazon than YouTube. Free streaming services don't make money, YouTube loses money, Twitch loses money, Kick loses money, the Microsoft one before it died was losing money. If it's free to watch it loses money, and these are companies that do a ton of work to try and make it not lose money, and it just doesn't work.