This is very much the sort of question that has been central; in my thinking for the last few years. "Can a federated network scale without turning itself into a platform? And underneath that is can the openweb grow without becoming the thing it was built to replace?" My response is that anything that looks like centralization is a point off weakness, a potential point of failure. That includes initiatives like the Openweb Governance Body (OGB), "the proposal for a native governance layer for a federated network, using the same principles that make federation possible – autonomous communities, open protocols, distributed participation, federation between communities, local decision-making, shared standards, negotiation and mediation, accountability between participating groups." I know, OGB doesn't look very central, but to my view the seeds are there.
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