If you break up the big platforms today, you'd need to do it again in 5 years. Big platforms exist because centralization is convenient for users. If they disa

If you break up the big platforms today, you'd need to do it again in 5 years. Big platforms exist because centralization is convenient for users. If they disappeared new ones would be created, for the same reason the original ones were created in the first place. I have yet to see a proposal for a federated platform that appeals to average people outside of the HN/open source community. And even if you could solve that problem for social media, how would you come up with a federated replacement for something like Google search or Amazon shopping that is anywhere near as good?