You’re right! While the rhetoric speaks of freedom and opportunity new technology almost always favors the ones with cash and power. Technology is never neutral! It so often is driven by network effect, compound interest/profit, and as you describe hidden positive feedback loops. I wonder if counter acting negative feedback shouldn’t be baked into the protocols of the infrastructure?

How a neutral, anything goes, and “meta” Holochain can avoid becoming the infrastructure to drive the same forces as mentioned above? How does holo.host avoid that economy of scale does made some actors to become super hosts? Do you have some leavers in place to balance out the share?

And lastly, how can the public audit the system? Not the code base but the usage patterns.