i agree with your speculations.

EOS was supposed to be this great, scalable, super-highway for all things block chain.. so why is a separate EOS clone needed for the new social-media platform?

That just smells of in-fighting and/or control issues.

But, i was turned off of EOS almost two years ago when i heard people were banned. (yes, its not the whole story) And when you have a distributed system that can ban people... well, its no longer distributed nor open.

On a separate note, the really killer, decentralized social media platform will be everyone having their own "wall" server. You control who gets to see what. You get to choose what to post and host. And you get to decide who are your friends.

I am sure a linux distro could be turned into such quite quickly, the harder part is the interface.

I imagine we will have wall browsers in the near future.