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Re:Why Decentralization Matters (2018) by amelius on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:16AM (#29391732)
You mean like e-mail? Sadly, most people use gmail now and there are whitelists so you don't get to write your own email server.
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Re:Why Decentralization Matters (2018) by whymarrh on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:38AM (#29392547)
Similarly, basically everyone using Ethereum just uses Infura nodes [1]. Web3 is no more decentralized than anything it purports to improve upon.

[1]: https://infura.io/

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Re:Why Decentralization Matters (2018) by Chris2048 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:49AM (#29392693)
I feel email could really do with disruption.

Least of all: require escrow-held-micro-payment to send an email to some location. If the item is marked as spam, the sender loses their money (perhaps to the spam-filter maintainer).

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