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Cross-post from FC Shitjecture:* The difference between a protocol and a platform is that on a protocol you collect rent when people are on the move in some way, while on a platform you can collect rent even when people are sitting around doing nothing * shitpost-conjecture
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Whatever your specific loyalties or hostilities to musk, and whatever your emotional or pragmatic attachment to any following you’ve built here, there’s more than just political shifts (feudal —> monarchical platform dynamics) underway. There is a technological shift underway.
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Platforms are lava now. You want things that don’t lend themselves as easily to “fixed real-estate” metaphors. Protocols allow anyone to add “territory” (email servers are an old example though now a bad one due to spam-forced oligopoly). FC plans something similar called Hubs
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“The platform is lava” 🤣
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You’ll never find a *politically* perfect place to go. But you can at least try to move in the evolutionary direction the tech is slouching towards. Protocols are the future. Platforms as we understand them are the past.
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