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The #startup world's dirty not-so-secret: most startups fail. Startups are risky and so investors place bets on lots of startups and fold the ones that don't show promise, which sucks for the company employees, but also for the users who depend on the company's products. 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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You know what this is like: you sink a bunch of time into familiarizing yourself with a new product, you spend money on accessories for it, you lock your data into it, you integrate it into your life, and then, one morning - poof! All gone. 3/
1/ @Microsoft @Minecraft has just revealed that it will exclude anyone, without notice & due process, simply if they disagree with them and that they too operate as a digital dictatorship changing their terms of service on a whim washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
2/ #minecraft has directly caused pain and suffering to an innocent & blameless minority who was purged and cleansed without regard to their circumstances and without advance notice causing at least >$100m in damages coindesk.com/business/2022/… (we have no stake in @nftworlds)
3/ @Minecraft has provided no evidence that operating #NFTs are harmful to their community given that a vast majority of all players are not engaged in any #blockchain version. Previous term did not disallow #NFT or #blockchain implementations of #minecraft have existed before
1/3 The true threat for true digital property rights #NFTs #ownyourdata will not come from regulation or government but from big tech companies unwilling to surrender their data hegemony and wrestling for control of their definition of the #Metaverse
2/3 Part of the reason why .@animocabrands has such an aggressive investing strategy (inc. building our own stuff @TheSandboxGame @REVV_Token and others) is to support the growth of an open metaverse to a point that it becomes unassailable and true interoperability is a given
3/3 #NFTs have the potential to transform #digitalassets and #dataownership in the same way that #opensource has transformed our relationship with code #closedsource with new layers added on top of #opendigitalasset to give rise to entirely new experiences that may accrue value
