I also wanted to ask about something else. I've seen many members here tagged as AI spammers. Isn't that something that a user would get banned for?
In my opinion, yes. However, AI (ChatGPT & Grok, mostly) hasn't been around for long enough for the forum administration & moderators to decide whether or not copy/pasting AI generated text should be considered plagiarism, which is fair. Additionally, it would be bad if users suspected of posting AI-generated content when they actually weren't got banned. Its sometimes hard to definitively know the difference.
There is not a single part of LN that is centralized. Even if the node or channel topology looked centralized, that does not make the protocol centralized. That does not give someone centralizing powers either.
Philosophically speaking, nothing is _completely_ decentralized, including Bitcoin. Everything
just has various degrees of centralization -- its an analog scale as opposed to digital. So dkbit98 might have just been saying that LN was "centralized" in his opinion, according to his own standards. He's a fairly intelligent poster & several others around here do
engageindulge in the same kind of linguistic liberties, even when its not agreeable to everyone.