Do We Really Want a Decentralized Internet?

We say we care about privacy.
We say we want freedom.
We say we don’t like being tracked, watched, monetized, or manipulated.

But when the decentralized internet shows up and politely says:

“Try me, try me, you just might like me!”
We answer like the old familiar friend from Green Eggs and Ham:
“I do not like it, Sam-I-am. I do not like your crypto jam.”

Because the truth is, we’re comfortable in our current box (without that MetaMask fox)—our Google search, our Chrome tabs, our YouTube recommendations and Amazon shortcuts.

They’re fast.
They’re easy.
And they don’t ask much of us—except our data, our habits, our preferences, our location, our trust.

Our response? It seems to me we’ve been programmed to say, “You want me to give you all that? Eh, ok, it feels like no biggie.”

Web3 browsers and search engines invite us to try something different.
No middlemen. No default surveillance. No hidden ad auctions or secret scoring of your clicks.

And yet, we hesitate.
“Would you use it in Brave? Would you use it, for some crypto to save?”
“No,” we say. “Too weird. Too new. Too slow. Too few.”

It’s the same hesitation that lives in Green Eggs and Ham.
Not because the thing itself is bad—but because it’s unfamiliar.
Because we’ve never tasted this version of the internet before.

Here’s the truth: Decentralization does taste different.

It’s clunkier in places.
Requires a little effort.
And doesn’t always come with a sleek, animated onboarding sequence.

But like the hero of that Seussian tale, maybe—just maybe—we’ve been wrong.

“Say… I do like this Brave browser, Sam!
I do like Presearch. Yes, I do!”
“I like the Graph, I like IPFS, and even that MetaMask fox too.
Sam, it has become plain for me to see, I do not like living in algorithmic stress, I think maybe those old Web2 ways are no longer for me.”

Web3 won’t replace the internet overnight.
But the more we try it—the more we build, support, and explore—the more we discover what a self-directed, user-owned internet can be.

So don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
Taste the green eggs.
Tap the decentralized links.
Browse the chain.
Search the uncensored web.

Because if we never leave the algorithm’s cage, we’ll never know what freedom tastes like.

And if Dr. Seuss taught us anything, it’s that sometimes the weirdest things…
turn out to be exactly what we’ve been missing.

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