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>> At the risk of displaying my ignorance and lack of knowledge about this area, one part I found very familiar in this article is that the action interactions in his apps didn't actually interact with the blockchain, but essentially with two centralized services.

Absolutely correct. Extremely flawed reasoning regarding blockchains and web3 on Moxie's part. He actually created more confusion than enlightenment.

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What's flawed in his reasoning?

He's creating confusion by treating front ends or clients like (Metamask, Opensea, and Infura) as servers when they are actually clients.

So dapp -> infura -> blockchain is really client -> client -> blockchain.

When multichain interoperability becomes widely available (See polkadot, cosmos, etc) blockchains will also become clients as well. Clients at any level won't be bounded like they currently exist in centralized networks.

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