It's like people pretend the internet has been around for ages and things just are unable to change anymore.

i'm not sure that's a valid argument. cars have a clearly tangible benefit above riding horseback, even early automobiles. what's the tangible benefit to a decentralized system like this other than twitter/facebook/social media company not owning your data?

the parent comment to my initial post said the absence of censorship, but anecdotally the kinds of people i've seen going to "censorship-free" alternative sites are the kinds i don't particularly care to associate with. voat.co being the "shining" example

Handwaving away criticism by saying, "People in the past have been wrong about things before" isn't really addressing anything.