> Decentralization can be a priority, but must never be promoted as a feature, or made to be a selling point. When decentralization becomes the main selling poi

> Decentralization can be a priority, but must never be promoted as a feature, or made to be a selling point. When decentralization becomes the main selling point of a product or service, the usability and polish tend to suffer. Not always, but nearly always. None of the marketing copy should include the words 'decentralization', 'privacy' etc. Normal users don't care about any of this. I think this isn't quite the case-- these projects "nearly always" suffer due to decentralization being a priority. Outside of perhaps darpanet, the decentralized projects that succeed do so because the decentralization is merely a value-neutral means to an end that satisfies a central use case. E.g., compare usage of git to usage of every tool that tries to decentralize more parts of git in service of the general virtue of more decentralization. Edit: clarification