For trading, there is Bisq but to provide it with liquidity and usage is up to the users. If a Binance manages to garner much attention with trading shitcoins and becomes a "business leader", then that is just capitalism working.
Why can't a Bisq replicate the same form of success.
BISQ is my go-to for trading at the moment, and I wish it had more users and more liquidity. It all comes down to convenience again. If you are willing to give up your privacy to Binance, then no one can pretend that Binance isn't incredibly more convenient than BISQ. With BISQ you have to download clients, browser for offers you like or wait for someone to accept your offer, pay security deposits, wait sometimes for hours for the other person to complete their side of the deal, if you are transacting with fiat then wait hours for the fiat payment method to process, etc. With Binanace you can deposit, trade, withdraw, and be done in 20 minutes (provided they don't freeze your account or demand a compliance review or some other nonsense). Unforuantely, as I spoke about in my first post in this thread, people are all too willing to give up their privacy in exchange for convenience, everything from having a Google Home record all their conversations to sending their documents to complete strangers across the internet.
Maybe, we should have a dedicated section for Privacy issues as a sub for quality discussion as well as resources for newbies here at the forum.
I would agree with this, and it's something I've talked about on a couple of occasions before, most recently here -
A board for Privacy, Security, and online Safety? We see quite a lot of threads regarding general privacy and security dotted about the forum in various boards where they don't really fit. A dedicated board would not only help to organize these topics in one place, but it would be a good starting point for users to educate themselves further, as you say.