I got through the first third and skimmed the rest as I got the feeling this is mostly about coins and blockchains.. so maybe the argument is okay for that. Ho

I got through the first third and skimmed the rest as I got the feeling this is mostly about coins and blockchains.. so maybe the argument is okay for that. However for the internet as a whole, I think we are seeing a lot of people care about decentralization actually. All it takes is for someone you like to see/hear/read to be banned from primary portal X - and you will most likely care. How many listeners/watchers/subscribers have had thier person-of-interest/subject-of-interest/channel banned from a primary portal in the past few years? That's got to be a huge number of people.. The thought of it is quite scary for some people who have not yet been banned also - the fear is real that people on youtube (and other primary portals) have a legitimate call to action to sign up for their email list in case they are de[platformed / down-ranked or whatever. so I must disagree with the headline of the story as a whole, but it does appear to be mostly written as a rebuttal to other stories about blockchain coins or whatever and makes some good points about the pains with those things.. however if you read another recent HN thread, it's obvious that US banking is full of pain points that don't need to be as well - so I think there are more people wanting to use other transaction services even if it's not super easy - moving money in the US is not as easy as it could be - I guess this argument is better suited for Europe folks and what not.