Should I bother decentralizing my website?
I run a small but growing community site. I built it with privacy and censorship resistance in mind, using pki instead of a traditional login system. However, I estimate that making it fully decentralized would take at least a month of my development time. Given that the site is not specifically targeted at tech savvy users, do you think that’s worth doing?
I'm really put off by the movement towards decentralization for the sake of decentralization. Over the past couple of years the term has been thrown around as if decentralization is good by default regardless of the actual application and use case and I'm just not sold on the benefits. Of course, some of this might just be my personal bias
It depends on your users need and the service you provide. Usually decentralization is thought of when you want to avoid Single-Points-of-Failure in a network or when you are giving a service that can't work properly without multiple nodes contributing to it.
You should explain what you mean by decentralized.
A CDN? Serverless on something like Cloudflare's workers?
If it's not targeted at tech savvy users (even then, most tech savvy users wouldn't care) and you don't feel any moral/personal drive, don't bother.
I'm curious, wouldn't PKI be less anonymous than username/password?