It's not the backbones that cause the issues. It's the centralized services we rely on. Fully decentralized services don't make money, as they inherently rely

It's not the backbones that cause the issues. It's the centralized services we rely on. Fully decentralized services don't make money, as they inherently rely on a population of providers to be exactly equal to them. After Usenet fell out of favor, RSS sort of answered the mail here since aggregators could pull the news together and cache it. That is, until news services stopped providing more than the intro paragraph in their feeds. But yes, social networks are central to many peoples relationships now and people would have to remember how to communicate without messenger apps again.