A lot of folks here seem to believe the web is currently decentralized. But consider: - if Google were to stop functioning tomorrow, would you still be able t

A lot of folks here seem to believe the web is currently decentralized. But consider: - if Google were to stop functioning tomorrow, would you still be able to identify yourself to the web sites you use? - if dang decided to censor your HN comments, could you or I easily spin up an instance of HN that ignored that censorship? - if someone were to come up with a better algorithm for generating your Twitter feed, could they implement it and attract users to their site? The way the web works today, we don't have equal access to the data that powers the applications we use. I'm not saying which is better, but the type of decentralization envisaged by web3 proponents goes further than what we have today.