> I can imagine governments asking Cloudflare to add/remove topics they like/dislike.
This is already possible using the existing WAF so it sounds like you want to focus your efforts on the democratic processes which would prevent that from happening.
Depends. There are other cases of expensive devkits, yes (Sony PlayStation at times, if I recall), but e.g. Xbox will rent them out to you for free or very cheaply.
In my industry the cost of a test bench is also higher, sure.
There are always two limits, what producing something costs and how much people value the thing and are therefore willing to pay for it. The actual prize must be somewhere in that range. A thing is a success because the prize is less than what people are willing to pay but they might still be overpaying if a lack of competition does not drive the prize down towards the costs of production.
That seems like a false dichotomy. Anyway, it's unprovable either true or false, because no evidence exists.
Let's just assert that it's false, then. Let's say 30% is unreasonable, and that iPhones would be as successful even with yet more unreasonable developer fees.
Would the iPhone be as successful if it took a 99% cut and nobody would bother developing paid apps for it? Probably not. Whether 30% is the sweet spot is unclear, but given that there is plenty of paid apps on the platform, why would it be unreasonable?
Well the iPhone is a worse device than a flagship android already, so I think it would still remain popular because of the fashion aspect of being an apple user
"no moderation", massive problem. I'm not hosting my (admittedly limited) content on a platform that lets my videos get posted in proximity to scams, CSAM etc. If I'm going to ask people to go to somewhere to see my videos (again, admittedly limited) then I'm not going to want them to be stumbling across that stuff.
YouTube isn't getting it right, they're allowing bad shit (poor quality, scams, excessive shrieking) and taking people down for spurious DMCA takedowns, but the answer isn't "no moderation at all", that's not the problem.
As a user I don't sign up to somthing because it allows anything, doesn't take anything down, I sign up beacause it has the things I want to watch. I'm not a character in cryptonomicon or snow crash.
And the joke’s in the fact that Nostr is not even blockchain based. It’s basically Bitcoin devs’ response to the whole Web3 thing demonstrating that you don’t need a blockchain and a shitcoin to have a decentralized, permission-less, censorship resistant social network.
Nostr is extremely anti-crypto and pro-bitcoin. The trouble is that most people don't appreciate the distinction, they will in time but at this stage, without deeply researching and understanding the topic, most just include bitcoin in the snake pit of "cRyptO"
I can imagine governments asking Cloudflare to add/remove topics they like/dislike.