Comment by zozbot234

"We" (meaning technologist culture) have never worked to promote centralized, monopoly services. The users did it to themselves, largely in pursuit of short-term convenience. "We" are now building the federated, interoperable platforms that users will hopefully come around to when the obvious problems of centralization (including widespread censorship, non-existent customer service and non-transparent AI's/bots run amok) start seriously biting them in the ass. In many ways, it's already happening.