> Open, interoperable, and decentralized networks are the future. That'd be great. I doubt they will exit their niche though. How about this abstraction? Centralized mega data silo companies developed through some kind of techno-cultural evolution .. they evolved to form a symbiosis with the intuitive portion of the brain of internet users. While the rational reasoning (thinking about long-term benefit) of internet users _should have_ led them away from centralized enshittified platforms and towards nerdy decentralized free networks .. it didn't. Why? Because people live most of their lives intuitively. They shop at Amazon because it's easy, even though in the long-term the oligopoly harms everyone but the shareholders. Will the intuition of the majority of people ever opt for decentralized networks?