Decentralization is important because you need a point of reach in case you get cut off from the centralized platform or (more likely) it gets taken down. Other

Decentralization is important because you need a point of reach in case you get cut off from the centralized platform or (more likely) it gets taken down. Otherwise you’re cut off, or a group is cut off and dissolves. But word spreads around pretty easily, and even though most forums are centralized, there are a lot of forums. Many centralized platforms = a decentralized platform, because people connected to multiple will share messages across channels. The biggest issue is like, in the Reddit debacle, many communities are likely to be hurt or even destroyed. And it will be hard to re-form them and get near the same amount of popularity