You are in the wrong place.
You aren’t going to find what you came for.
You might as well go home.
You aren’t going to get rich here
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not have a multibillion-dollar addressable market.
The revolution will not follow a freemium business model.
The revolution will not come free to play.
The revolution will not enroll in Y-combinator.
The revolution will not keep deposits at Silicon Valley Bank
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not do a 83(b) election.
The revolution will not enroll in Zenefits.
The revolution will not have Mark Cuban as an adviser.
The revolution will not take seed investment from SV Angel and 500 Startups.
The revolution will not issue preferred stock
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not have board meetings.
The revolution will not be recommended by the App Store.
The revolution will not come preconfigured on your iPhone.
The revolution will not be featured on TechCrunch and MSNBC.
The revolution will not offer stock options
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not appear in keyword auctions.
The revolution will not hire a CSO, CMO, and VP of finance.
The revolution will not ship with a toolbar.
The revolution will not have a Salesforce account.
The revolution will not feature pre-roll ads
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not have a $100 CPM.
The revolution will not give you mining rewards.
The revolution will not have A, B, and C rounds.
The revolution will not have a $50 billion valuation.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not be 30% off if you pay a year in advance.
The revolution will not cost $50 with a contract extension.
The revolution will not be 50% off from Groupon.
The revolution will not get a 409A valuation.
The revolution will not ship free with Amazon Prime
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not have a profit and loss statement.
The revolution will not be the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study.
The revolution will not have executive offsites.
The revolution will not hire management consultants to write an annual plan.
The revolution will not have IAB ad units
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not be analyzed by Mary Meeker and Jim Collins.
The revolution will not do a Mezzanine round.
The revolution will not be underwritten by Goldman Sachs.
The revolution will do any mergers and acquisitions.
The revolution will not have a trillion-dollar market cap
Because the revolution will not be monetized.
The revolution will not be monetized,
Will not be monetized,
Will not be monetized,
Will not be monetized.
The revolution will not make you rich
Because the revolution
Will be free.
I don’t think so… they’d have to make their own version of server software since you can always read the posts from other instances… also it’d need to be concerted effort because people would migrate from / defederate singlular bad actors… but !remind me in 2 years.
I don’t think it’s going to be “singular bad actors” in this case. I think it’s going to be every server owner realizing why the situation became what it is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit. When operating and development costs stretch beyond the grasp of donations, when the number of users far outstretches the number of donors and customers, server owners will have to seek out ways to monetize users. So, sure, you’ll have people who are willing to put in the investment to launch their own server and federate as they see fit, rather than pay for the service. But you’ll have a lot more people who are unwilling to pay.
That means ads and paid content. That means login walls and paywalled content, “premium” access and features, etc. I expect that every large Fediverse server will end up that way. Either that or the way they’ll stay ad-free is to kick off the users and keep only the paying customers (these people will be called “donors” so they don’t expect any benefit for their money). After all, kicking a user out of one instance of the Fediverse doesn’t have the impact that it does on Reddit. Heck, kicking a thousand out doesn’t. There’s every other instance’s customers and users still to talk with. There’s always the ability for those people to invest in the platform with their own instance, or join one with a smaller number of allowed (non-paying) users.
Yeah but there is no exclusivity in federation as there may be in users. If every instance sucks, I can run my own.
I can see big instances closing off signups, but there will always be places which run on donations and are small enough to be sustainable.