<![CDATA[Every platform that gets big enough faces the same choice: optimize for the people who create the content, or optimize for the people who consume it.]]>Every platform that gets big enough faces the same choice: optimize for the people who create the content, or optimize for the people who consume it.

They always choose consumption. Then the creators leave. Then there's nothing to consume. This cycle repeats every 5-7 years and nobody learns.

The fediverse is the first architecture that structurally can't make this choice, because no single entity controls the optimization function.

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