No, no, no - NOT *re* distributism, but the political philosophy favored by G. K. Chesterton. It's about decentralizing the means of production.
Around 600 B.C. the Hebrew prophet Micah described the ideal political economy as "every man under his own vine and his own fig tree". For a predominantly agricultural economy, this represented individual ownership of the "means of production". See Means_of_production article on Wikipedia (strangely, urls are not allowed, or I would include link).
By the 19th century, new tools for production, like the telegraph, railroad, steam loom, required large capital investments. In the US, workers could buy shares in the ownership of such operations. But this ownership was on paper - the tools and policies for their operation (including conditions of workers) were controlled by an elite few. Some factory owners were conscientious. But the majority lacked a conscience. 19th century novels describe the many abuses in horrifying detail for Great Britain and the US (and elsewhere - those are just the ones I've read).
Karl Marx came up with a brilliant solution to achieve Utopia while living with his parents: the workers need to own the means of production! But to do that, you first have to get rid of all the Bad People (factory owners and employers). Then the means of production will be owned in common by all men (as in males only - his Manifesto specifies that women will also be owned in common by all men). But this ownership was on paper - the tools and policies for their operation (including conditions of workers) were controlled by an elite few. Abuses were far worse than the most soulless Capitalist (who after all, did not control everything) had ever dared.
G. K. Chesterton reconsidered his initial attraction to Socialism, and in reexamining Capitalism, declared that "the problem with Capitalism is that there are too few Capitalists".
Today, most of the technologies that required large capital, and the corrupting power that gave those who controlled them, have been miniaturized. A powered loom fits on your desktop (not as fast as a full scale). Plastic parts can be "printed" (slowly) on a desktop. Metal parts can be "printed" or carved automatically by a machine with the cost of a luxury car in the space of a refrigerator. An automated printing press fits in a normal room. So many means of production can now be literally owned by individual workers.
There are still some out of reach: space launches, micro-ship foundries. Nuclear power generation can be owned by a small community via micro-nuclear technology - but requires the support of centralized spent fuel reprocessing, just as computer tech requires the support of chip foundries.
But yet, most people are not taking advantage of this remarkable freedom. In particular, for Linux users, centralized services are the norm, despite free and libre software that implement the same functionality in a federated or fully decentralized manner. This forum is a locally centralized (federated) service - but on the user profile, it only offers fields for centralized and proprietary "instant message" services. I suppose I can a Jabber/xmpp address elsewhere on the profile, but still.
This thread is about helping people take steps to extricate themselves from the Big Three: Google, Facebook, Amazon. Those companies together control over 75% of the internet.
E.g. email. Who has a gmail.com address? You may not be up to running your own email server (mostly due to the spam problem), but you can certainly register your own domain, and pay google to host it. Then you can at least switch providers at will.
E.g. "social media". Who uses facebook/twitter/google and complains about censorship? There are federated platforms like Mastadon (makes it easy to run your own moderated node), and fully decentralized protocols like Secure Scuttlebutt or Retroshare.
E.g. internet connection. Who is still in "IP4 NAT jail"? This makes centralized/federated services with IP4s the only way to do anything useful over the internet. You can't even place a simple VOIP call to your friend without involving a centralized mediator! Time to get on IPv6 (which does not require your ISPs cooperation) and explore mesh networking so you can use more than one ISP or operate without them entirely via radio protocols (and running a wire to your neighbor is also quite feasible).
Ok, it is a big topic, so I'll stop here.