> Decentralization is a fantastic idea, and it works great in theory, but it fails to actually consider any of the practical problems that come with decentralization and doesn't consider what people who aren't programmers actually want to do with their time and money.
The fallacy here is most centralized services are implemented on top of the biggest, most successful decentralized system: the web.
> And it's because people don't want to spend time setting up their own shit, they are very happy to pay in either money or data to have someone else do it for them.
I'm not so sure. For really important tasks, I'm routinely amazed by what people cobble together to solve the problem, especially when they can't build software. Perhaps there are just a lot of things that if made easy, provide enough value they are worth buying, but aren't important enough to people to invest a year or two building a product for. Regardless, most modern centralized systems are simply nodes on a decentralized system.
The fallacy here is most centralized services are implemented on top of the biggest, most successful decentralized system: the web.
> And it's because people don't want to spend time setting up their own shit, they are very happy to pay in either money or data to have someone else do it for them.
I'm not so sure. For really important tasks, I'm routinely amazed by what people cobble together to solve the problem, especially when they can't build software. Perhaps there are just a lot of things that if made easy, provide enough value they are worth buying, but aren't important enough to people to invest a year or two building a product for. Regardless, most modern centralized systems are simply nodes on a decentralized system.