I really love (and believe in) this comment from Ploum:

It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion that with blogs and email, we already had a decentralized social network. We only needed to use it.

I enjoy reading blogs, and sending emails to the authors. I do it frequently, and have done for a long time. It feels… right.