A lot of people keep declaring the web needs to be more decentralized. I don't think they really have a plan for making things better, though, because decentralized doesn't really mean anything except 'not centralized'.
It doesn't mean 'privacy-focused', because the internet is decentralized, and your privacy isn't inherently guaranteed by it. It doesn't addess how to fund online products, which is what drove the systems we have today. It doesn't describe how we're supposed to convince the world to build products that don't exploit people, and aren't used by the powerful against us.
Saying we need the web to be more decentralized is like saying we need more transparency in politics. Sounds great, but even if it's more transparent, that doesn't mean more legislation is going to get done, or done better. We need more concrete goals, and to focus less on the means of getting there.
It doesn't mean 'privacy-focused', because the internet is decentralized, and your privacy isn't inherently guaranteed by it. It doesn't addess how to fund online products, which is what drove the systems we have today. It doesn't describe how we're supposed to convince the world to build products that don't exploit people, and aren't used by the powerful against us.
Saying we need the web to be more decentralized is like saying we need more transparency in politics. Sounds great, but even if it's more transparent, that doesn't mean more legislation is going to get done, or done better. We need more concrete goals, and to focus less on the means of getting there.