Anything in particular that's making it stupid?

Install is from source and a pain in the arse.

I'm sort of unclear on how this decentralized social media thing is supposed to work. Are there well-known servers that people trust? Who runs them?

There are! But I'm running my own.

Or are you concerned about how you're going to get people to trust your own server?

Oh hell no, this is going to be an invitation server. And there's not an algorithm, it's just who you follow, and you can follow cross-server.

It's feeling like a mix of usenet and livejournal but with ... slightly better search. Usenet Twitter more or less. So far.

But I've only had the server up a couple of hours so who even knows :D