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why does stuff always have to be big and centralized
Because your country (assuming you live in the United States of America):
a) Cracks down on torrent users too often for them to risk not using a VPN, which means no torrents from US IPs.
b) Has very expensive hosting prices (hosting a site is more expensive in the US than in other country), making hosting small sites not worth it
(More generally)
c) Runs under capitalism, which favors an oligarchy, which means centralization of power.
d) Has a winner takes all FPTP election system and yada yada yada the US ends up with two rightwing parties that favor the oligarchy
In the cess pit of thy Web3 world, this is one thing that crypto in modern day is actually good for. Take Sui's well architected Walrus file platform. You pay some money for storage that similar to S3, then since it's all on chain and n't subject to the whims of clownflare or Bezos your website data or torrent tracker list or whatever becomes mirrored across crypto nodes. At that point it cannot be meaningfully censored. The only thing at risk at that point is purely the domain name of the website.