users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

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End users just want products that work well, they don’t give a damn about decentralization.

Andy

users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

https://x.com/ayyyeandy/status/1882705439571534004

i took his point to be related to marketing -- which is lets focus on the benefits that decentralization provides when we talk about blockchains, rather than the mere fact that they are decentralized