While Bitcoin certainly has scalability issues, I think the point they are trying to make is that is there any other decentralized system that has been able to reach the scale of Bitcoin.
All of those are truly decentralized with a wide range of implementations and operators, not to mention proven real-world robustness as opposed to Bitcoin's hard requirement on a massive amount of always-on hardware and network capacity.
You're right that there may be better examples but how much of the world's email and DNS content is served by Google/Microsoft, I wonder. People are also complaining in other threads that Cloudflare is actually making the internet more centralized.
Maybe they're talking purely about dollar value, but I'd say more useful information has been passed back and forth with torrents.
That decentralized software aligns much easier with commons than with markets is something that I would consider a feature, not a bug.
We’d definitely have the most comprehensive and accurate catalogue of the musical output of humanity ever created.
Instead now we have Spotify and Apple Music. We’ve only scratched the surface of the good that torrent technology can do.
You're litterally sending this message accross a decentralized system that outscaled bitcoin by many many orders of magnitudes in a fraction of the time.
I don't think cryptobros and the rest of the world have the same definition of "decentralized" because clearly we don't understand each other
This is true of most of the common sales points: for example, you'll see people claim blockchains are censorship resistant or anonymous, beneficial to the global unbanked, etc. with little ability to explain how that's actually true in practice.