You are underestimating the power of external influences. It's not just about what individuals decide for themselves. Because right now, even if you decide to

You are underestimating the power of external influences. It's not just about what individuals decide for themselves. Because right now, even if you decide to learn what it takes to have your decentralised internet back, that still may not be enough. We still don't have an easy to use computer that can run 24/7 in your own home, on which you can install a blog, vlog, social stuff, email, as easily as you use the current centralised services. When I first installed my mail server, it took me a week. I'm not a system administrator, but I am a developer familiar with GNU/Linux. Your average muggle doesn't stand a chance. Even if we had those little computers, our bandwidth is still asymmetric (even the fibre, even though it makes no technical sense) and that decision is a corporate one, that you are not going to reverse by voting with your wallet. Even if we had our symmetric bandwidth, we still cannot send emails from our own home. I mean we could send it, but it would be rejected by every big players out there, as well as most mail filtering systems, because the current assumption is that if it comes from a residential IP, it's spam. And we still don't know how to make a decentralised search engine. --- The choice these days is simple: either you give up on the likes of privacy and anonymity, or you shut yourself from the network. It's not a binary choice —more like a spectrum in fact— but there is no third alternative yet. For instance, I don't use Facebook. I missed some events because of that, and people are surprised I didn't know about that party I was invited in. It's the fifth time I told them I never log in, dammit!