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people are starting to care about decentralization and ownership, apparent in articles about BlueSky and in user reactions to Reddit selling data to OpenAI

majority of crypto twitter does not care about decentralization, they care about making money

majority of people do not care about or for crypto

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like @six I'm v. skeptical. people who write articles do not represent the majority, or even a meaningful minority, and even they don't necessarily walk the talk

I do think Blue Sky user schism from Twitter is meaningful and impressive, but I don't think interest in decentralization per se is what drives it

knew someone was going to respond with this and honestly feel that it overlooks a quiet trend away from "attention" and towards "authorship" (another form of ownership). sure, easy to say Bluesky is "stated" but how do you explain Substack's sustained growth over the past years?

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yeah, correct. used Substack as a reference to "ownership" as a value, but i think this gets into nuance of ownership / decentralization.

people care most about ownership, and decentralized networks are often the only way to make direct ownership guaranteed and enforceable over time.

substack built on premise of ownership; you own your relationship with your audience via email list and substack helps you monetize it with easy credit card payments.

yes, substack can rug writers at any point but they haven't yet in away that impacts trust. once they start censoring or banning accounts the same way that twitter is, people will see that ownership isn't guaranteed in a centralized platform.

hmm maybe we're talking past each other — Substack is a centralized platform, no?

it definitely isn't, over and over bluesky users state 'we don't care about decentralization, we just want old twitter / Twitter 2'