I'm sorry, but decentralized local, distributed (bla bla, web 3.0, blockchain, bla) internet services are just tried, tested, and shit ideas. These things really offer so little improvement at all to most end-users. It's something that's more often than not just built atop nice squishy feelings that nerdy and technical people have. It's all about the beauty of the network structure over a monolithic one. How it's more democratic, and giving people power back. Yet people aren't aren't asking for that and these ideas which can be done do nothing nothing for improving the products in the way they are currently used. No one signed up to Twitter and said "Oh god, I really wish I could run my own Twitter microservice and break up this giant database into some distributed model". The tweets got sent, they received tweets, it didn't matter to them it was centralized and it still doesn't. Decentralizing it can, at best, just reach a point where its advocates can tell these people "hey, it's just as good as it was before", and that's not even taking into account the inevitable teething problems and migration issues that will make that goal incredibly hard to achieve.
1. Is it easier to do in a decentralized manner?
2. Does decentralization improve the end-user product?
You need at least one of these questions to have a "yes" answer to have a shot but every time it's "no" "no"
I'm sorry, but decentralized local, distributed (bla bla, web 3.0, blockchain, bla) internet services are just tried, tested, and shit ideas. These things really offer so little improvement at all to most end-users. It's something that's more often than not just built atop nice squishy feelings that nerdy and technical people have. It's all about the beauty of the network structure over a monolithic one. How it's more democratic, and giving people power back. Yet people aren't aren't asking for that and these ideas which can be done do nothing nothing for improving the products in the way they are currently used. No one signed up to Twitter and said "Oh god, I really wish I could run my own Twitter microservice and break up this giant database into some distributed model". The tweets got sent, they received tweets, it didn't matter to them it was centralized and it still doesn't. Decentralizing it can, at best, just reach a point where its advocates can tell these people "hey, it's just as good as it was before", and that's not even taking into account the inevitable teething problems and migration issues that will make that goal incredibly hard to achieve.
1. Is it easier to do in a decentralized manner? 2. Does decentralization improve the end-user product?
You need at least one of these questions to have a "yes" answer to have a shot but every time it's "no" "no"