I think with centralization comes control, arbitary rules, surveillance, potential for abuse of power and loss of end user control. The fact that it keeps on b

I think with centralization comes control, arbitary rules, surveillance, potential for abuse of power and loss of end user control. The fact that it keeps on becoming more and more difficult for individuals to run mailservers cannot be a coincidence. The solution is decentralization at least for things like reddit, mail, search, social and other similar services. Multiple discrete 'old style' forums, search services, email providers and individual servers with dispersed control cannot be easily silenced, surveilled or subject to arbitary rules. I think the usual response is people don't care but I think that's because they don't know and may not have stopped to consider the consequences. And perhaps more important before they didn't have to care. Now increasing creepiness from centralized providers means sooner or later users will wisen up. If parents for instance become concerned about privacy issues they will go out of their way to protect their children and this can lead to new more privacy aware services, rules, and distributed applications. It also makes centralized unicorns based out of SV less of a desirable thing.