Great points gtsop! We have a very similar understanding of decentralization. My co-founder and I are passionately working on making sure that we eventually reach that goal where Slik keep going, even if any one actor falls down.

Here were our goals when we started this out -

  - Prove and implement the encryption technology [completed],

  - Switch over from centralized storage to decentralized storage [completed],

The above two goals help us achieve a working solution that users can start adopting.

Next few near-term goals are -

  - Switch over from centralized compute to decentralized compute,

  - Make the code open-source so that the technology can be extended, forked, etc as the community needs.

Hope that gives you a reason to be stoked! :)