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The real charlatans were the “the technology has promise” people. No, the technology was dumb.
He says on a decentralized platform that became popular because the centralized equivalent became hostile towards their users.
"Blockchain" and "decentralised" are not interchangeable words
Yes, in the same way that federated and decentralized aren't interchangeable.
You're dodging the point that being in favour of decentralising doesn't mean being a blockchain bro
So are you pushing a non-blockchain based decentralised ledger solution then, or did the point they were dodging actually just go over your head?
I'm not pushing anything, but yeah, anything other than blockchain
Well, it's been about 15 years, and everything else we've found so far has been shitter. So just, give up on decentralisation I guess?
I don't think Lemmy counts as popular yet.