horsefacts 🚂
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I think this is the most interesting point of comparison. The AppView monolith is a privately funded public good: someone needs to pay a few million dollars a month to run it, and if this subsidy stops the costs must be socialized. Who pays what and why? It's more like a government. Merkle subsidizes Farcaster too, but no dependency is quite so central. The goal is to grow an ecosystem of private actors incentivized to internalize the network costs themselves. It's more like an economy. And if the subsidy stopped, we know who might pay and why. Economic activity is itself a form of diversity and decentralization.
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YES2Crypto 🎩 🟪🟡
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maybe I didn't read enough but why is bluesky paying all that?
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