If only decentralized services worked as well as centralized ones..

Yeah it kinda pisses me off constantly reading about how decentralised messaging, or ad-hoc wireless mesh networks, or whatever it is, is the way to go.

That shit works on a small scale. Serving the entire planet needs hierarchy and co-ordination.

Doesn’t necessarily mean everything has to be completely centralised, but some of the woolly wishful thinking you come across is not based in the real world.