Imagine a community being cut off temporarily from the Internet by a natural disaster. With the current centralized architecture of the web, that community would lose access to pretty much every resource on the Web including their own local newspaper (who’ve likely outsourced hosting to aws). On the distributed web, resources of local interest like news, weather, government information, maps, and other common-interest items would still be accessible from other clients in the neighborhood.

“Why We Need the Distributed Web”