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> Subscription services will still be an option, even in a P2P Web, but we are trying to reduce the natural monopoly of the dataset (no walled gardens) so that
by lewisl9029 10y ago
> Subscription services will still be an option, even in a P2P Web, but we are trying to reduce the natural monopoly of the dataset (no walled gardens) so that might make affect service revenue by increasing competition. I'm not sure how destabilizing it will be.
If a service can be destabilized by the lack of a walled garden to lock in users, then it's in society's best interest for that service to be destabilized, because that means there are other competing services that users want to use, but can't because of the size of the existing service's network effects.
The status quo of services competing mainly by the sizes of their network effects is completely hostile to innovation, experimentation, and user choice. Any efforts that could disrupt this status quo has my full support!
- pfraze 10y agoCompletely agree