Gregory's Server@tomw the decentralized internet never went away. it lost to the voluntary convenience offered by centralizing advertisers who continue to leverage hidden externalities of data extraction and collection to explicit cost of development and infrastructure.
there were no viable options to google reader when it shut down. why?
@crt0_S Yeah, also the network effect of having everyone on one platform.
Similarly there are hundreds of RSS readers, just none of them was able to get a critical mass again. I think that's really down to the decline of blogs though, not a lack of will