As more and more “curation” happens with the big providers, it’s fun to see people rediscover the benefits of running their own sites that they control.

I’d love to see more distributed models around forming and maintaining communities start to pop up. A distributed directory similar to DNS that no one entity totally controls pointing to independent content publishers.

It’s time for the Internet to get back more on the distributed side of things, especially since the modern equivalent of a nuclear attack is a large site just up and banning someone for a vague TOS violation with no human to appeal to unless you get lucky in shaming them enough on Twitter to respond. Yeah, I want my livelihood dependent on that service model.