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> always centralize over time when it comes to mindshare Yeah, you're absolutely right. Companies grow, and people talk about them, and get other people to try
by pocketarc 3y ago
> always centralize over time when it comes to mindshare
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Companies grow, and people talk about them, and get other people to try them, and they grow more, and more, until it becomes the "default" option that everyone knows, and they become entrenched by sheer power of their mindshare.
Especially in a global world where these brands become larger than life. There are brands with more global recognition and soft power than most countries out there.
Most people go with the defaults. That goes for software as much as companies. It doesn't matter how many decentralised options you have, because mindshare is what matters. Being the default in people's minds is what matters.
You need hosting? AWS. CDN? CloudFlare. Git? GitHub. Video? YouTube. And so on. There -are- options. But people aren't going to bother, when they can just... go with the default.
It's not about people not liking decentralisation, it's just much more mental effort to research and explore options when you can just go with the default.