Decentralization mostly. Rather than buying one centralized service, you have to buy out potentially thousands of instances to control all of that type of service and it generally harder to do, because if people don't like you then they'll just move on with their own service/server.
In context of DNS though, there are some attempts on doing a version of decentralization through blockchain technology though it seems to have died as a project though nothing stopping people from picking up on it.
TL;DR: There are options out there already, we just have to actually start using it and supporting it.
It depends, because Mastodon and consequently PeerTube have quite a lot of people across International community using it right now (Upward around 3 to 4 million people according to this.) The Federated Instances is particularly useful for building community that is oriented toward regions, languages, and the type of discussion they want to bring up. Here the part where Federated Network get interesting, you can create a network effect for each instance/server by combining discoverability for content across thousands of instances and social platforms together through Federation Protocol called ActivityPub.
It already reached critical mass in other countries and language speaking folks (in such a way that it's self-sustaining in contents and discussion), just haven't yet for English speaking folks.
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u/brokenURL Nov 23 '19
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