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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by crankylinuxuser on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:41PM (#18886753)
This feels like the same argument:

"Al Gore claims he's an environmentalist, yet he flies using his personal gas guzzling plane."

And yeah, it's an ad hominem. "Is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument"

You can most definitely use centralized servers to disseminate decentralization. I'm pretty sure https://ipfs.io started as a github project and on a monolithic server backed by cloudflare. That doesn't dismiss them in the least - considering they now heavily dogfood.

Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by rubenverborgh on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:42PM (#18887407)
More specifically a Tu quoque / appeal to hypocrisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque :-)
Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by Perceptes on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:00PM (#18889030)
Thanks for sharing this! I wasn't aware of this term and it's very relevant to another topic I often discuss. It'll be very useful to me. :}