The wave towards a decentralised internet

For most people it's not so visible but there is a wave of start-ups busy with building what could be described as a more decentralised internet. As noted in a recent Economist article.
The current internet is very centralised and dominated by a few large platforms. Which ofcourse was not the original promise of this technology. No wonder there is lot of enthousiasm about current initiatives like Ethereum, IPFS , IPDB , Akasha to name just a few. But also in the business world, a concept like UETP fits like a glove on earlier named initiatives.
For me it shows we may be moving towards a more decentralised internet, which is good thing in my view. Both from the perspective of security and privacy. But also on a more fundamental level, it's good that large platform players like Google, Facebook Microsoft, Amazon etc. will not be completely dominating our information context in our lives. There can and should be places where you as a person are in full control. In my view governments should support these developments. Many people don´t trust governments themselves so maybe the next best thing is providing environments they can trust.
What will be interesting is the business models. For Facebook, Google and others this could be a threat. At the same time the question could be asked, how will mentioned startups fund themselves besides the occasional subsidy or grant by governments and others. The good news is solutions seem to be available. To name one, 21.co is looking at a machine-payable web future which could help. Anyway, interesting times ahead.