Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?
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You also get the problem where people will start companies with other employees that are ride or die because they had significant equity in the company. Once you approach anything like Amazon's size, the potential equity people can get has been severely diminished.
You also have a lot of founders who get to that position are workaholics who love focusing on their building empire. For them, it is hard to imagine how people wouldn't want to dedicate everything to building an empire like they do.
How did they gimp it?
It isn't one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.
Amazon has been trying to make sure it can be on all streaming devices as it provides the back end to a lot of other pay streaming channels. FreeVee was probably their Trojan horse to get people Amazon accounts and a service that low end streaming devices would need to serve.
And two heads instead of one? Peak efficiency!
And this is a policy the actors' union went on strike for.
This movie has Tom Hanks. But there is now a trained AI model that can make a very old Tom Hanks look younger. That same model could probably make someone who looks and sounds similar to Tom Hanks look and sound exactly like Tom Hanks.
I thought they went on strike to make sure the next Tom Hanks movie actually has Tom Hanks.
If the company dies, could the service continue?