Very good post and perspective @denmarkguy, and I agree. I've shared some of those posts about dapps and decentralized blah blah meaning to come back to see if I could understand all the blah blah better, and either never came back or certainly I still don't understand those things at all.
This to me seems pertinent to this post, based on your statement about cheating on FB
I stole this image from Tsū in about 2015

At one point I changed the Tsū to steemit, have that somewhere.