The web is decentralized by design (mostly!) – it’s the business models that have forced it into a ‘centralized’ shape against its original shape. TimBL saw browsers as being as much an editor of web content as a viewer – we’re now twisted into editing content using a web viewer on a server owned by a huge company.

So as soon as there’s real money in creating open, de-centralized services, that’s what’ll happen. I can’t see that happening soon but maybe there’s a way.

Maybe helping people to understand the value of paying for services rather than giving up their data/privacy would be a good first step? In a de-centralized world, somebody still has to pay for bandwidth…