I'm obviously bullish on web3 - but I wish we'd call out b.s. arguments people make. On the BASE twitter space, someone was talking about "why decentralization" and the example they gave was "centralized DB's getting corrupted." What are the last 3 instances of that happening?

Decentralization helps prevent censorship, ensures integrity and availability. Centralized DBs get “corrupted” all the time — consider when Reddit’s admins rewrote posts on a subreddit they disliked. Decentralization is a key component of what makes crypto, crypto. If you aren’t decentralized, you’re not cr

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

lol... that actually happened? Yikes.

Fair.

Perhaps to your point, did the commenter even understand that as a case or did they just get it kinda right for the wrong reasons?

@backpack put a bank in your pocket and use your money whenever, wherever, however without permission

/backpack
/notdevin
icebreaker.xyz/notdevin

That’s wild! I would never assume I could get that action past the internet without the internet finding out.

It was when Reddit’s admins decided to overwrite the comments of a group of people memeing in a conservative subreddit about Reddit’s CEO at the time. They didn’t flex a content policy and remove them, they literally replaced the comments with something else.