> we used to have a zillion untrustworthy/unreliable individual "webmasters" owning those blogs True enough, but the chance of many blog/forum owners all havin

> we used to have a zillion untrustworthy/unreliable individual "webmasters" owning those blogs True enough, but the chance of many blog/forum owners all having a hissy fit at the same time - the equivalent of what has happened to Twitter with Musk or Reddit with Huffman - was infinitesimal. Also, because there were many, competition worked. Don't like one forum? Go to another, often on the same topic, and losing all the friends you knew on other forums was never even a possibility. Thanks to network effects, that hasn't been the case with the every-topic megasites. Returning to a more decentralized model won't solve everything, and will even (re)introduce a few other problems, but it's still more resilient especially with regard to crazy CEOs.