Are there others like me who tend to read "alternative" as a misnomer in stories about "decentralized X as alternative to centralized Y?" I take git vs. svn as

Are there others like me who tend to read "alternative" as a misnomer in stories about "decentralized X as alternative to centralized Y?" I take git vs. svn as what I think is a fair reference point. Someone can still argue in favor of svn, but I don't think they could seriously argue that git isn't a viable alternative. Moreover, git is so popular because it specifically targeted svn's users. Scuttlebutt does not yet meet that standard-- at best its a framework on top of which a yet-to-be-built Facebook alternative might sit. I don't want to be a pest but the barrage of FLOSS "alternatives" to Facebook/Twitter can have a numbing or frustrating affect on readers who don't reflect on this discrepancy.