Will 2025 be the year that venture capital discovers the Fediverse?
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How would you make money if you can’t control the platform? Investing in the fediverse is a terrible investment case.
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There is a non-negligible amount of companies making money out of services based on email, even though they don’t own email as a standard.
Also, remember when VCs were giving money to every “Uber for X” pitch deck some years ago? If ActivityPub ever manages to cement itself as ubiquitous standard, you can bet that we’ll see investors going anyone saying “LinkedIn, but on ActivityPub”, “Tinder, but on ActivityPub”, “Etsy, but on ActivityPub”, “Patreon, but on ActivityPub”…
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Exactly. And there are countless of popular open source projects which are funded by VC. Many of which I have no idea how they plan to make money. Astral (the creator of ruff and uv) is one recent example.
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Many of which I have no idea how they plan to make money. Astral (the creator of ruff and uv) is one recent example.
We are getting off-topic, but to me it seems clear that they are trying to become to the Python world what npm became to Javascript?
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Yeah, maybe that was a bad example. I believe my point is that if the quality of the product and/or the number of users is large enough, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a viable business plan yet.
The big risk when it comes to the fediverse is that it still is so small that big tech could just highjack the whole thing, and it wouldn’t even be a point on the board agenda. I.e. it’s still pocket money we’re taking about.
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