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The nature of the net us to centralize and then decentralize, it's a cycle. See 90s AOL vs the open net as an example. At this point it's more about usability than it is about access. The open tools that are being built still have a ways to go towards fluid user on-boarding and compelling retention experiences.

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When has it ever decentralized? The nature is that new decentralised systems get invented, then they get centralized. The outbursts of decentralization keep getting smaller and less frequent, as programming software gets more complex with more dependencies and requirements (security, internationalization, etc)

There's very little evidence to support this claim. Some things were decentralized in the past, now most things are centralized. That does not establish a cycle.

The Internet has many centers and choke points, most of which gather in the U.S. The Internet needs country level network diversity and more stuff happening on the edge of networks instead of the center. Maciej Ceglowski explains it better than I:

The Internet With a Human Face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWFo1VaQNmU

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