I totally agree with you, and just to expand on my point, I belive considering problema like >Meanwhile, people continue to flock to >* Slack (deliberately put

I totally agree with you, and just to expand on my point, I belive considering problema like >Meanwhile, people continue to flock to >* Slack (deliberately putting this at the top, given the audience) >* Signal >* Whatsapp >* Line >* WeChat >* Facebook Messenger >* Viber is lacking consciousness for the effects. It is a comfortable illusion to ignore the fact that these are all (or at least predominantly) run by private companies, whose interest is not offering a through and through good service, but rather a profitable. Ostensibly, it might seem good/fast/better but that's by far not everything. As others have mentioned, it is partly our "social/moral responsibility" (hope this wont provocate anyone) to educate people on the pitfalls and problems we and will be encountering with these services. And regarding your second point, that also expands to the consciousness of decentralisation/federalisation/distribution. Centralize network is a special kind of distributed network with only one server. But that's not to point of people like me who are trying to promote these kinds of systems. And partially thats also blamable on the people who made the system (but to be fair, there were quite a few, and it wasn't that coordinated).