I did like the concept of IPFS around the time this was written but now it feels to me like it misses the wood for the trees. The thing is that the web by its

I did like the concept of IPFS around the time this was written but now it feels to me like it misses the wood for the trees. The thing is that the web by its nature is already decentralised. The real issue with the web today isn't really some technical, architectural flaw. Centralisation has emerged in this already reasonably well decentralised system because of network effect driven accumulation, the market and pre-existing wealth from investors tipping the scales. Yes IPFS is a more thorough attempt to create a distributed web, yet I doubt it is fully immune to the forces that captured and centralised the existing web, except for the fact that it is currently unpopular. Or it will remain unpopular because there's no incentive for private enterprises to invest much in a system where they can't control their own corner of it and few users like using systems built on the cheap when flashy, well funded alternatives exist, if it is truly that resilient to centralisation. Whichever way you want to slice it. The social forces that cause centralisation in the web are the same forces that cause e.g. monopoly and extreme wealth accrual in the rest of society. And the fix has to be social, not technical.