The future is decentralized, how do we make it happen? It makes me sad that my children and their children are heading towards a sanitized internet where only the corporate mainstream is allowed and the rest is crucified.
Easily implemented, decentralized/self-hosted platforms already exist, but you can't stream/share your vacation videos with your large family because your upload capacity sucks.
Centralized services exist because individuals don't have the capacity to support a Mastodon or Diaspora instance on their own network connections.
And more's the pity.