Until there is a major problem with centralized apps/platforms/services that shines creates a need for people to transition to decentralized services,
That is already happening (people are becoming more educated about data and it's uses) but we do not need a major problem in centralized platforms, all we need is to get knowledge of how important our data is for businesses. Because if we talk about IOTs (internet of things) that are generating 1,000 Petabytes in one day. Which is just too big but that's another discussion about managing them.
For now, data from social media is one of them and once we get to know the importance of it and how big organizations are using our data for their own purposes will convince people to move to decentralization. Because decentralization will provide fewer data of your activities in compared to centralized ones. Well, this could be another problem in the adoption of Decentralization as it will affect the features that our governments are using from the big dataset.
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It came back to people threat modelling, some want to protect their digital privacy and some do not care. Some of them are aware of what kind of data those monopoly companies collect and what they generated themselves, but they want to simply live as conveniences as possible. if someone wants to go into the decentralized routes convenience is not exist.
Snowden shocked the world with how the US collected and spied on its citizen and also the whole internet, yet does the majority of people in many parts of the world are aware of him? And also do those who were truly cautious about it and advocated for privacy are having its significance to educate the public? My main take is some people choose the easy route, the convenient. The simple thing. Those big companies besides giving those things are cultivating the ecosystem so there is a continuity for the users themselves to engage and create anything, I'm afraid a decentralized model would not be able to compete with it.