Running a private node (THAT DOESN'T ROUTE) is just fine.
Is time to have more quality than shity quantity.
Quality doesn't affect decentralization.
But shit nodes in large quantity will affect seriously the entire network and that will be more dangerous than just some big central public nodes doing quality routing.
Instead of fucking each others, we should start fucking the bansters by having a good network.
So you don't see any solution where anyone that want to participate can do it and still keep a good quality network?
Is it similar to Tor, you cannot prevent someone to run a relay or exit on a slow or unreliable connection, still it's better for privacy, decentralization and sensorship resistance to have some slower relays than limiting the ability to run a relay to only the most powerful machines, which could all end up being AWS and Azue hosted relay.
If we can make the software more resiliant with fall back and multi parallel routes to picknup only the best ones and avoid slower and offline nodes + add good automated management then we don't have to restrict anyone to run their node as routing when they want to contribute as much as they can.
Again, maybe I'm wrong and I'm missing something that make this impossible to achieve and true decentralization, censorship resistant and privacy is only an unachiveble dream but I'm not convince yet of it.
Yes, you are still missing the point: regular users could just run a PRIVATE NODE.
Is still a part of decentalization, is still non-custodial.
Or you do not know the difference between private and public node?
