André Staltz - Some people want to run their own servers

Open Source Freelancer

This post is a reply to Moxie's recent article "My first impressions on web3" . Although I am writing a criticism, I am grateful for Moxie's post because it exposes several truths that underlie web3, which most people are not willing to see. There is a surprising amount of centralization actively brewing in the "decentralized" space and most of its advocates don't seem concerned. I think money (especially loads of money) blinds people to the uncomfortable truths that Moxie made explicit. At the same time, Moxie referred to other uncomfortable truths but somehow didn't address them directly. Th

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