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diff --git a/src/blog/centralization-through-decentralization.md b/src/blog/centralization-through-decentralization.md index aa6d19d..2cc1513 100644 --- a/src/blog/centralization-through-decentralization.md +++ b/src/blog/centralization-through-decentralization.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ categories = [ "software" ] --- An opinion piece was recently published in Wired magazine titled ["The Hidden Dangers of the Decentralized Web"](https://www.wired.com/story/the-hidden-dangers-of-the-decentralized-web/). It makes a lot of basic factual errors, conflates valid reasons to mistrust centralized social media with antisemitic conspiracy theories and grifts, and somehow even manages to make basic security practice out as conspiratorial. I'm not all that interested in giving it the time of day, except for one paragraph that stuck out to me. +--- > While the platforms offered by Meta and Alphabet are certainly not without issue, it is hard to deny the convenience of their established existence, which makes it possible to communicate, be entertained, shop, and more all in the same place. By contrast, users of decentralized platforms will need to download a slew of apps for everything they want to do online, because these features will no longer all exist in one place. |