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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by chain030 on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:28AM (#45222539)
The internet for the average person has converged to a handful of products and services.

Your point being?

People prefer centralised stuff since it takes care a lot of stuff for them. They dont actually care all that much about technology that yield decentralised outcomes. I know that may be difficult for many here to comperehend.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by fsflover on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:47AM (#45222736)
People prefer centralized services until they enshittify, after which people move to the next thing, thanks to the decentralization.
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by chain030 on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:50AM (#45222769)
Google, Meta and so on are not dying.

So whats your point fella?

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by fsflover on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:18AM (#45223066)
It might be slow for the megacorps, which don't even try to follow laws, but

> Google

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

> Meta

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30186326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689

> Apple

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11034071

And

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA (ostechnix.com)

1021 points by marcodiego 58 days ago | 620 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580682

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by warkdarrior on Friday September 12, 2025 @01:59PM (#45224770)
> people move to the next thing, thanks to the decentralization

This does not quite follow. Care to explain more? What I observe in practice is that people move from one centralized service to the next centralized service (e.g., X->BlueSky) but rarely from centralized to decentralized.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by fsflover on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:44PM (#45227133)
Most services aren't decentralized, but the Internet itself is decentralized, which allows to set up these independent services that can compete with each other.
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