@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party In part the problem is that internet infrastructure has been invested in and managed in a centralized way for so long that it takes significant investment of resources and time to develop any reasonable alternative that is trustless and decentralized.

That, and for many more specific tasks the issue is just plainly more difficult to do in a decentralized!d manner. You end up needing to create and use CRDTs, a data archetype that is not at all a solved problem and still heavily worked on. Yet little adopted, since the incentive structure behind the economics prioritizes centralized infrastructure so that it can be held hostage for a price.