While who pays for the decentralized web is a perfectly valid question to raise, I think it's counterproductive right now. Much like the internet itself, this

While who pays for the decentralized web is a perfectly valid question to raise, I think it's counterproductive right now. Much like the internet itself, this new architecture will be ushered in by hackers looking to disrupt the status quo of walled gardens and data warehouses, not corporations. So immediate monetization is not a top concern. We can't even imagine what the economics will look like, just like Tim Berners-Lee couldn't have imagined the current web 30 years ago. If we stop to worry about fitting the decentralized web into our current economic models, we will trap ourselves in a box.