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Re:The Web We Have to Save by nota_bene on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:53AM (#9996961)
> I really hope the current centralization of the web is an evolutionary step.

In our Western economic system, the question boils down to:

Can a company make more money based on the concept of centralization or decentralization?

The answer seems obvious (to me).

Re:The Web We Have to Save by wolfgke on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:29PM (#10000900)
Skype was originally (before being bought by Microsoft) very decentralized (though the software was heavily obfuscated, so that "decentralized" did not mean "user has much control"). This saved the company the money to build an expensive infrastructure.

So for me the answer is not obvious, whether there is more money to be made on the concept of centralization or decentralization. So I think the problem is rather in terms of "amount of user control" instead of centralization or decentralization.