Both centralized and decentralized technologies have their own pros and cons. I’ve been using centralized ones my whole life without batting an eye, and so do my parents, family members and close friends. Once I started becoming more conscious of my own privacy and browsing habits, I started investigating alternatives. I used social media just to communicate with people so I was able to get off that habit by switching to Signal and Qamon. What I’m trying to say is the only way decentralization actually starts becoming a part of our future—including social media and communication—is for people to become aware of the dirty games big tech companies are playing with our online identities. If it were up to them, they would become more hostile with their data collection, but the initiative to create alternatives will have to be sparked by the community. Decentralized data storage will 100% be a safer way of storing user data and information, but only time will tell if we get decentralized technology in social media or not.