>We've all been complaining about the dangers of centralization, censorship, and impermanence on the modern web
This a social/economic problem, not a technological one.
The Internet itself is built on open protocols and could well be decentralized. Instead we've allowed corporations to build walled gardens on top of it.
Blockchains won't magically solve this. They're just infrastructure, like a cloud database. From a meaningful decentralization perspective, it doesn't matter who's offering their computing resources to make it work.
What matters is the applications and access points that are built on top of the infra. Like the modern Web, this is exactly where we'll see centralization, censorship, etc. happen. Again.
This a social/economic problem, not a technological one.
The Internet itself is built on open protocols and could well be decentralized. Instead we've allowed corporations to build walled gardens on top of it.
Blockchains won't magically solve this. They're just infrastructure, like a cloud database. From a meaningful decentralization perspective, it doesn't matter who's offering their computing resources to make it work.
What matters is the applications and access points that are built on top of the infra. Like the modern Web, this is exactly where we'll see centralization, censorship, etc. happen. Again.