it was never supposed to be anything. we made it so. solving discovery in a decentralized way is extremely hard and lossy.

Yes we'll said. FOSS and decentralized systems are like this.

It’s an inconvenient truth which is why it’s been such a challenge. There’s not enough tweaking that can be done to make it more decentralized. Solutions would need to be designed wholly around the principles of user sovereignty.

Feel like what being working on at sphinx has components of this: decentralized, and good discovery.