upstream protection & network effects

take any publication for example

a journalist can have a few bad weeks of content & will still survive to produce more content in the next given the network itself derisks any individual node risk, eg. salary, other journalists & their content, publication brand equity & reputation, monetization, etc.

further an undiscovered journalists can tap into the network to gain notoriety & readers given the established network effects (distro)

consider this against zoras new erc20 mechanism where new creators are simply left to fend for themselves

so outside of any attention capture event whereby a single actor with a large following effectively replaces the need for proper distribution… creators, users & collectors are largely left carrying all the risk

so as networks consolidate, for example, the winners on zora are susceptible to poachment on incremental fees or via some other easy vampire-style mechanism as there is nothing to prevent such behaviors

& losers just lose

considerably unserious // building idle rpg /animarising