I personally think "own/control your own data" being the punchline for most web3 products is at best extremely weak esp. when facing consumers. 

Consumers don't tend to optimize for "safety" when they are looking for fun. It's rarely ever the primary hook.

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average consumers prob won’t care
but large creators who’s entire livelihood depend on a social app do. the fear of getting banned on Twitter or twitch or YouTube and having your income immediately cut off is very real. and average consumers will go where their fav creators go

i thought that was the case (audience following creators), and still possible, but Ninja's collab with MS Mixer (RIP) did not move the needle against Twitch. 

anything can happen though. just a personal opinion loosely held while thinking about the space.

do you think Mixer might have beaten twitch if they had let users own/control their own data, all else help constant? 

think we are on the same page re: feature requests/product differentiation being what makes/breaks the experience.

valid point but I think mixers main issue was not listening to streamer feature requests and focusing on high profile creators vs growing organically
harder to move quickly after being acq buy Microsoft