@tomw sometimes i have to remind myself how lucky we are that the systems and tooling that make up the internet were built in a decentralised manner to begin with.
it really is only through good design and engineering that we have ‘survived’ big tech at all really, and that we have any chance of moving away from that world.
@henry I agree, though it is also I imagine that centralised models wouldn't have taken off in the same way in the first place - they couldn't have grown so globally and rapidly if some central resources and permission were needed. You see this again and again in computing history - PC clones, the web, Linux...