[ricardobeat]

Where exactly is decentralized tech today?

Nobody around me ever uses any of it. Old p2p networks (gnutella, kademlia, emule) had way larger impact on society 20 years ago.

[blamestross]

BitTorrent isn't getting any smaller. Mainline DHT is still 10x bigger than Bitcoin.

[pmontra]

Email and the web are more decentralized than they look. Just think that different FOSS and closed source user agents and servers interoperate without any problem, especially for email.

[ricardobeat]

They were talking about crypto. Email and the web were born out of research & universities, not the “potential to attract investors”.

[feanaro]

And in non-web space, there's Matrix (https://matrix.org).