Which brings to the final point and closing the loop: the feedback effects of software and economic models and organization. E.g., If #selfhosting was dead easy (via NAS etc) it could expand to be as common as an AC plug or water faucet.
Or maybe decentralization could be resolved at municipal level ("city clouds")
Only then can you really look at web protocols and rank them according to fitness.
In the meantime we will have a cacophony of wildly different ideas competing for mindshare
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