that's a good thing too

I've threatened to try to build the post-spotify artist-centric streaming app of the future and long term I would still like to get involved with or invest in that kind of project.

Some areas will be safe, or commoditized; it's not like we are going to totally replace the reasons why we would want giant data centers for economies of scale. But these content middlemen platforms that sit between users and creators I predict will look more like bluesky than like x or Spotify.

I'd go even further: the web2 tech cos should be able to get the bag. They built the rails, they showed us the way, and it took a non trivial amount of effort and investment. The floor will probably fall out from under them to some extent, that's just where things are heading, but not in all cases.

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