Great points!

What are the differences that you see?

Questioning the technical virtues of an alternative product based on lack of critical mass adoption is pretty funny, when you consider we’re on the fediverse. I know that doesn’t defray your argument, but just an amusing observation.

Doesn’t have to be cars.

I’m just saying the original post is conflating criticisms against a particular implementation of blockchain with all blockchain.

“The wright brothers invented a useless machine they called the airplane. It only held one person and could fly for only a limited duration. It was also extremely dangerous.”

That’d be a silly sentence, would it not?

Sure. Sure. Insert your own example of applying the sins of a particular implementation of a technology to a hierarchical supergroup. That was an example I came up with in a few minutes on the shitter, not a deep philosophical argument.

_ is bad, because (specific implementation) has these flaws!

That’s the issue being discussed here. It’s misleading without precision.

Popularized it is. I was careful to not put invent, but morning brain not work good.

Elon musk popularized the electric car.

It had dumb handles that killed people. It lied about having self-driving capabilities. It had terrible manufacturing tolerances.

The “technically true” nature of it reads like propaganda against electric cars as a whole, does it not? I’d argue that applies here too.

Fwiw I use a fork called Apollo because it enables a headless setup

I believe this is where reusable water balloons can come into play

Have you watched Mr. Robot? It tackles a lot of these questions.