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Except all these things can be trivially forked. If you don't like how the VC one is doing things, just fork it. There are a billion forks of everything in the
by darawk 5y ago
Except all these things can be trivially forked. If you don't like how the VC one is doing things, just fork it. There are a billion forks of everything in the crypto space, for exactly this reason.
- polskibus 5y agoIt’s easy to fork the code but not the user base.
- lowwave 5y agoyes, when was the last time you see google chrome forked and adopted a large user base? That is event with big VC money behind it Brave for example. Open source is now days used a marketing scheme to attract developers to work for free, and attract user to think that is open.
- threeseed 5y agoThere are hundreds of open source projects that implement a social network. So does that mean I can be the next Facebook with one click of a deploy button ?
- darawk 5y agoFacebook wasn't the first social network. Not even close. Facebook succeeded because it did very similar things to the prior ones, but a little bit better than them in just the right ways. That is the essence of a fork.
- say_it_as_it_is 5y agoThere are a "billion" forks in the crypto space, but have any surpassed the original project in quality or adoption?
- darawk 5y agoSushiswap did for a bit, iirc. It's doing quite well either way, though.