My initial read on TFA was very positive. But then I read the comments here and I realized a substantial issue with the argument.
The author is precisely correct to point out that there are lots of arenas with large scale participation but only a tiny percentage of people "really making it happen".
However, many of the descriptions of the problem(s) that web3 is "intended to solve" would be left largely unaddressed by solutions that utilized TFA's observation.
Increasing (maybe?) the number of IT-minded people who run their own servers will not really do anything to address the centralization of data on the servers used by everybody else.
So in the end, I think his response to one of the main points of the referenced Moxie article isn't wrong, but it's a red herring.
The author is precisely correct to point out that there are lots of arenas with large scale participation but only a tiny percentage of people "really making it happen".
However, many of the descriptions of the problem(s) that web3 is "intended to solve" would be left largely unaddressed by solutions that utilized TFA's observation.
Increasing (maybe?) the number of IT-minded people who run their own servers will not really do anything to address the centralization of data on the servers used by everybody else.
So in the end, I think his response to one of the main points of the referenced Moxie article isn't wrong, but it's a red herring.