Except platforms are the internet in any meaningful sense of the word. In the 80s people literally thought that when you and I wanted to exchange data over the net, I would connect to your computer or vice versa. Even setting aside centralization pressures resulting from economy of scale, NAT killed this by essentially making everyone's PC act as a client and never a server, at least without extra non-user friendly work

Projects like IPFS and urbit are trying to change this but the FAANG economy of scale combined with the sheer user friendliness of centralized platforms makes me very bearish