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I think we need to start being more specific than "decentralized". My critique of most crypto projects is that they aren't partition tolerant. Does that mean t

I think we need to start being more specific than "decentralized". My critique of most crypto projects is that they aren't partition tolerant. Does that mean that they aren't decentralized? I don't know. I'd love a taxonomy of decentralization techniques so I can say: "crypto project X has decentralization characteristics Y and Z, but only Y is consistent with its stated mission so it's less viable then project W which... But instead we just decentralize=good centralize=bad and continue with politics as usual.

judge2020 5y ago
It's like how Git is decentralized. Yes, it is indeed decentralized and that has enabled a lot of interop (eg. git push heroku) but for anything public, people want a nice way to view code, have the README front and center, etc. so they often prefer their main datastore be GitHub or GitLab. It helps that they do some maintenance automatically for you, eg. garbage collection and effectively guaranteeing you won't lose data (besides when the services break and it's down for $x hours).