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Or! Hear me out here: I use Windows.

Lock-in sucks, but it's real.

They've clearly spent the last 10 years spending like crazy, in a frantic (and successful) effort to diversify their offerings.

Yes, they'll first and foremost be "internet walmart", but only a fool would think that the insane growth was unstoppable - Jeff Bezos is many things but he's not an idiot.

People say it to seem smart. And then you start asking questions and they look foolish indeed.

For example, decentralize how? At what level? Article? Storage? Editorial? Might as well say all you need to build a car is 4 wheels and some power.

Decentralize means a lot and has a lot of impact. It's not as easy as "installing the blockchain".

Instead, it might be more fruitful to take regular archives of it. Indeed, that is a supported action (wikipedia is intently copyleft) and many people already do it.