Feeling the consensus over consumer friendliness vs decentralization shift too far for my liking recently (even beyond farcaster)

Let’s be pragmatic and remember why we are here. Nobody said building better, more resilient systems was going to be easy

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i agree with your sentiment. we've seen it shift from not caring about consumer ux at all (bad) to everyone becoming aware of consumer ux (good) to people cutting corners in the name of consumer ux (bad)

disagree on bluesky example, but that is a different conversation

You don’t get credit for decentralization if people don’t use it.

Bluesky is a good example here. Way less decentralization, way more consumer traction. And they can always improve their decentralization over time (which I believe they will do).

Well said. It feels like consumer friendliness is starting to take priority over decentralization lately. I just hope we don’t lose sight of why decentralization matters in the first place.