decentralized

If you're trying to be a decentralized, universal platform, you've just shot yourself in the foot.

Blogging was decentralized -- FB, Pinterest, Twitter is a single source controlled by one corporate entity.

Usenet could have been kept alive and decentralized, and maybe even evolved alongside the web.

So you're saying its impossible to have decentralized software that non-tech-savvy people can use?

Agreed, and I think the critical inflection point will be the development of an open, decentralized hosting+sharing+identity protocol.

We're creating a fully decentralized market for information, with an emphasis on consumer-friendly names.

A few years ago I worked on software that manages selling electrical power from small decentralized power plants.

I don't agree that email is decentralized.[1] It's interoperable and universal, but that's not the same thing.

It was decentralized when most people in it were tech savvy, it became centralized as more people got in that are not tech savvy.

And a central authority is not really all that decentralized, is it?

Let me understand this better: they centralized skype and decentralized software updates?

How difficult would it be to make a decentralized twitter clone?

I said " decentralized name resolution protocol" for the very reason that I anticipated someone bringing up dyndns.

Is there an implementation method for the decentralized web that doesn't require individuals to become web administrators (with concerns about security, SEO and "proper standards-compliant page architecture", storage and bandwidth costs, etc.)?

"Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference." So even the Ethereum developers describe the core use as contracts.

Decentralized services aren't somehow fundamentally incompatible with usability—its just a challenge we haven't tackled yet.