The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question | WIRED
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Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray.
Save this story Save this story Web3 advocates promise decentralization on an unprecedented scale. Excessive centralization can stymie coordination and erode freedom, democracy, and economic dynamism—decentralization is supposed to be the remedy. But the term on its own is too vague to be a coherent end goal. Getting the job done takes the right kind of decentralization, and we worry that Web3 is thus far heading down the wrong track. ABOUT Divya Siddarth is associate political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, the RadicalxChange Foundation, and the Ostrom Workshop. Danielle Alle
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