[rglullis]

> What is an individual node if not just another server?

A "node" in decentralized network is both a server and a client, with the difference that it only is required to "serve" the data that is in control of the node operator, right?

> web3 wants to throw words like "distributed" and "blockchain"

Have you seen any demo from the beaker browser? Or have you used the IPFS Companion extension? You can just add a folder there, get a content identifier and share that with anyone. That is literally all that there is to it.