> "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" Most people. And there's still a ton of "non-technical" (minimal programming/operations skills)

> "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" Most people. And there's still a ton of "non-technical" (minimal programming/operations skills) but technically literate people who will not run their own servers but prefer to pay for applications and services that are built on protocols like RSS, ActivityPub etc. Also hosting providers make it much more easy today than ever before. It's not "running your own server" but you get definitely quite a bit of control and ownership if you rent a VPS that runs stuff you created and/or installed. > "A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform" That's a good thing. --- However, I think overall these are very good points. Personally I think there is just too much crap that goes under Web3 to the extend that it is repulsive. I'd rather help people to use computers, even if it is someone else's (AKA the cloud).