Sure, in this case it was rich idiots spending millions, they’re only upset that they missed the opportunity to pawn it off to another idiot first

Even still, they take 30% of a studio’s revenue which is a ridiculous amount that’s only possible through a near monopoly

The benefit is that you could have a distributed marketplace. Instead of having monopolies like steam where one company accumulates a bunch of power they can abuse you could have multiple small companies band together to support a common standard of ownership so you could buy from any company and all the companies supporting the standard would respect it. You could also tie it to a legal contract so it’s actually enforceable.

Of course you could just do that with an centralized standard that’s backed by multiple companies too.

NFT buyers were also scammers since their intention was to sell it off to the next patsy

They weren’t even uniquely drawn, they just mr potato head combined a handful of components

MS is basically getting a ton of equity in exchange for cloud credits. That’s a ridiculously good deal for MS.

Lol, I’d be super surprised if open ai started adding ads, it doesn’t make sense with their business model.

Advice on what instances to join, coordination to move communities, technical advice for those communities to form instance, etc.

Thanks spez! You sent all the best devs making free programs for your platform to your biggest competitor, plus enough users for it to reach critical mass and allow the snowball effect to grow. And it’s FOSS so it can’t be stopped!

Open source, open standards, open protocols. We need to stop allowing centralized control which let the rich accumulate more power.