To be sure, this doesn't mean proclaiming decentralization to be cool necessarily (...fellow kids), but trying to be open-minded and friendly to the public, which I consider to be the actual better part of the ethos of the early Internet era. Being tech literate is "esoteric" by itself, and some complexities and social contracts cannot be really taken away from that, not without going back under the centralized yoke. But even moreso we should be trying to make it a little better by our attitude.
Even if a regulation of protocols for utilities will come, assuming it will be good, we need society to remain willing to preserve it.
I think Digg did it worst.
They all kind of exist, but they were mostly supplanted by bigger, more centralized things. All of them had a part in their own demise, too.
Then in turn those bigger, more centralized things have tended to screw things up.