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I highly doubt that. Each federated node is fairly expensive to host since it basically needs a complete copy of everything on its peers.

I think the future is distributed. You connect to others, and if the network is large enough, each piece of data only needs to exist on a faction of the nodes to be safe from disappearing. Just think about it, across your various devices (laptop, phone, tablet, desktop, etc) you likely have a couple TB available, and your can buy cloud storage for any extra space you need. And you don't need to always be online either, it'll sync when two peers are online at the same time, so it'll be eventually consistent.

The main barrier here is NAT IMO, you need to be reachable for it to work. That's getting resolved with IPv6, but it's rolling out really slowly.