"Yeah, sure, you can run a hidden service, and all three users, that know how to use tor and find that address will see your writings, but reaching wide audiences is impossible."
That's actually exactly what some folks want. To communicate privately with a small network of family/friends/colleagues. Tor does not have to be for everybody. If onion services only appeal to those people who bother to learn how to use them, then that's fine. What's important is that onion services work.
The silver lining of it being impossible to reach wide, i.e., large, audiences with onion services is that this means there is no incentive for advertising and thus no incentive for so-called "tech" companies to act as eavesdropping, centralised intermediaries under the guise of providing "free services".
Some folks might not want Google to snarf their content and try to profit from it in some way, or have Facebook offer them up as a highly specific demographic ad target.
That's actually exactly what some folks want. To communicate privately with a small network of family/friends/colleagues. Tor does not have to be for everybody. If onion services only appeal to those people who bother to learn how to use them, then that's fine. What's important is that onion services work.
The silver lining of it being impossible to reach wide, i.e., large, audiences with onion services is that this means there is no incentive for advertising and thus no incentive for so-called "tech" companies to act as eavesdropping, centralised intermediaries under the guise of providing "free services".
Some folks might not want Google to snarf their content and try to profit from it in some way, or have Facebook offer them up as a highly specific demographic ad target.