https://sn.1w6.org/file/msh-20180109T055058-supjq43.html

@JordiGH Today we have reverted back to the days of timesharing systems and isolated proprietary services that make decentralisation appealing, and we finally have technology to make barriers to participation low:

* cheap processing and storage
* affordable persistent broadband
* commodity virtualisation technology and services

and since no single service could ever take down the silos (even as broken as they are) highly federated successors seem to be the most likely outcome.