Ethereum is spiritually and functionally controlled by one man, Vitalik, but it is still far more decentralized in practice than here, which has a dozen chokepoints
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@sun i don't follow it much or closely, but from bits i see, i also have the impression he really does believe in decentralisation. not sure if that's an accurate impression i have?
@ilja He does. The "issue" is that he is a single person that can say something and Ethereum will probably change to accommodate that. It's a form of centralization but realistically you replace that with a committee and the chokepoint just shifts somewhere else
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@ilja he recently spoke out in favor of sticking to decentralization and "cypherpunk values" and a fuckton of "founders" cried out in pain
@sun cool! yeh, i really think the cypherpunk parts have gone out of the whole cryptocurrency thing since 2017 or so.. suddenly it was all about the money :( it's cool that at least one influential person is keeping to it then, and more impressive even, who can keep the project relevant in spite of sticking to these values!
@sun yeah, that's a bit the duality i also see. and i think you gave fedi as a nice example. not one person who has a say, but in practice this also means more decisions where decentralisation isn't taken into account, leading to less decentralisation in practice.
@ilja in theory the Fediverse is an agreement on a protocol, in practice you follow exactly one guy's implementation that doesn't even follow the spec or your shit doesn't work
