Decentralization is probably the (old) new geek frontier, the way the internet used to be. I doubt it'll ever be mainstream, because the network effects, busine

Decentralization is probably the (old) new geek frontier, the way the internet used to be. I doubt it'll ever be mainstream, because the network effects, business incentives, and markets just aren't there--there'll never be a successful decentralized Spotify. But that's a feature; I don't want that stuff to go mainstream because that's how you get Slack instead of IRC (etc. etc.)