[newscracker]

Decentralized social media, decentralized chat platforms, decentralized almost everything that we depend on the Internet for. Users of the platform have more control over which provider to use, can freely move around and even start things on their own to connect into well defined interoperable systems and protocols.

This is more of a pipe dream than a hope, but I would be ecstatic to see such a world. Like Peter Sunde of Pirate Bay said recently, it looks like we can do only some damage control now. [1]

[1]: https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve...

Edit: Added interoperability for the sake of clarity.

[juliansamarjiev]

This could be something that blockchain technology might have an impact on. This article gives examples of how blockchain can be used to decentralize many aspects of our current dynamics.

- https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/23/companies-of-the-future-n...