Does anyone have a good explanation on why Solana is more centralized than Ethereum? I can't tell if that's true, or just a meme (like how Bitcoin is more decentralized than Ethereum)

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How much does it cost to run a Solana validator? More than the 32 ETH staking minimum? And even if small validators are priced out, are there enough medium-sized validators on the network to spread things out?

That's my impression as well, but I'm trying to get a clearer picture of things. Like, if staking is equally distributed amongst 300 data farm VC bros in different countries who don't know each other, then that isn't necessarily worse than thousands of small validators making up a minority of staking + a couple big ones making up the majority

Ok, I realized as soon as I said it

I can’t afford a Solana node

And to answer the real Q no, afaik Solana validation is basically data farm bros/VCs
Like everyone is Lido

It requires the user to have at least 5,500 SOL to run a break even Solana validator since it costs 400 SOL/year in voting fees. This doesn’t include hardware/bandwith costs either.

32 ETH vs 5500 SOL is a big difference.

If you are willing to operate at a loss then you can run a SOL validator with any amount.