The reality is that we aren't very close to a world where everyone runs their own servers. Maybe we'll get there some day, but that feels at least a decade away

The reality is that we aren't very close to a world where everyone runs their own servers. Maybe we'll get there some day, but that feels at least a decade away. We built an alternative platform called Skynet, which allows anyone to host decentralized webapps like blogs, or even more advanced things like chess tournaments. There's a design pattern called a DAC that makes it easy for multiple frontends to use the same data, without anyone needing to learn a data spec.