We already had decentralization. It's called the BitTorrent protocol which is more decentralized than most Web 3 projects.
The appeal of BitTorrent is not that it is decentralized but that it, in a narrow legal context, doesn’t violate the law as copy protected materials are passed between users on a secondary protocol without touching the centralized system advertising data availability.
This hasn't been true for almost two decades. DHT exists so trackers are not required [0]. So now both protocols are decentralized.
It seems the inability to differentiate those two words is a scam worth more than 4 billion.
No one said otherwise.
>This is the same mistake as the subject matter with crypto.
This is where you're wrong. You misunderstood these concepts as if they were mutually exclusive. Torrent DHT is absolutely distributed and decentralized [0]. QED.
>It seems the inability to differentiate those two words is a scam worth more than 4 billion.
The scams in crypto are older than modern computers themselves. Ponzi schemes and straight up securities fraud, just wrapped in NewHotThingTM. Has nothing to do with decentralization or distributed systems.
[0] https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-dht-turns-10-years-old-...