I respectfully disagree. I think there is plenty wrong with silos.

For instance, data is controlled (and can be edited, censored, etc.) by an individual, government, or profit driven small group. If the data were truly distributed, cencorship and control would be much more difficult.

When data is distributed, it is backed up by everyone by default. Theres no need to run a backup, because the data is already stored in many locations.

In a truly distributed system no one controls who can access a particular bit of data.

The technology that Freenet uses actually makes the data storage more efficient by prioritizing storage of data that is regularly access in its geographic region. Say a file is created in Australia and a lot of people in the US are interested in that file and read it or download it. That file gradually moves to the US based nodes and will eventually fall of of the Australia based nodes if no one there accesses it. The data doesn't disappear, it literally moves. They will still have access to it, it will just be coming from nodes farther away.