Four things I can think about:
* technical knowledge barrier (most people have no idea or the will to setup, run and maintain servers)
* ISPs split upload/download speeds favoring download by far making it less favorable to self host
* incentives: people unfortunately do not value privacy enough and as soon as companies like google started to provide great centralized services (starting with gmail), everybody jumped on it and never looked back as decentralized/privacy focus solutions were just more complex to work with
* network effects: most people just use what other people use. Once centralized solution got big enough, it just got bigger from there.
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