Wordpress -> Facebook -> Instagram etc.; what goes around comes around.
AOL -> Web -> Google AMP etc.
Wikipedia has its editors and its petty squabbles, and worse, its ever increasing budgets (for what, exactly?) funded by guilt-based extortion from the masses, a bunch of parasites feeding on public contributions.
Once a hill has appeared from the bottom up, climbers crawl out of their holes, clamber up and try and steer from the top. And they usually succeed.
LiveJournal vs Wordpress
AOL vs The Web
Britannica vs Wikipedia
I could go on and on. Science, Open Source, Creative Commons allows collaboration instead of a top-down approach, and has been wildly successful.
In the past, we needed centralized manufacturing, centralized telephone operators etc. No longerz
Google “Distributism”