Moera is very interesting.
I think I would have spent a lot of time on Moera if I had found it some years ago, making it my personal home page, trying to get people to use it (forcing them to use if they wanted to interact with me -- which works in 5% of cases in my experience with Matrix (which is terrible, by the way), the other 95% people just don't talk to me anymore).
But now I think I can't waste time anymore, I don't think it is physically possible for Moera to gain mainstream adoption, so I'm not very interested, which is unfortunate -- or actually it may be a good thing.
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I personally think that if this thing is good (and I'm sure it is), I'll invest my time and effort into it. And mainstream adoption is absolutely possible, if we will not throw Moera into a basket too early. Lack of mainstream adoption always has a cause and we need to be humble and solve the problems that arise.
That's true that once a community if built, the number of people interacting there becomes the feature of itself attracting more people and forcing existing people stay. I.e. that becomes an attractor in the system. But usually things don't become established forever and systems eventually break - and frequently the collapse occurs when nobody expects that and very quickly. LiveJournal once was a place to exchange ideas, where a lot of interesting people were concentrated. But after russian company believed to be controlled by russian intelligence agencies took control of it, the decline begin, and it became replaced with other social networks. Similar thing happened to VK - a lot less people trust it now. I am feeling that FB is starting to rot now - lacking feedback in this close to monopoly state - becoming less interesting place to discuss the ideas and less trusted place because of efforts trying to shape the discourses first of all, lacking the necessary feedback in current close-to-monopoly state. So, there is a room for something new.
For me, I am happy having Moera even it it was just a standalone blog like one with Wordpress. I always wanted to have such thing where I can put content I write, out of fear of having locked out of my content by some decision by someone in a big company I can't influence. I'm having that here, with the software I can trust, plus the social features (which may grow a into a hub of interesting people).
I'd say same applies to systems - but to give devil its due some things are "rotting" for the centuries and are still alive ☺