20 years of magical thinking about what leads to a "decentralized" web: - blockchain! - firefox! - progressive web apps! - dreamhost! - wordpress! - RDF! - PGP! And still, no one reads the relevant econ
when I think of more "natural" internet business models the ones that come to mind are things like Paypal where it offers a centralized component (payment processor) used by a very very decentralized group of consumer-facing businesses.