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So you're saying that a platform has for objective to "capture" users.
vs a protoctwhich has for objective to add value to users?
Or, am I getting this wrong?
I wouldn’t put it in those terms, no. I think platforms added value, in the sense that they provided a means to connect with other people on a common substrate, and engage in a form of communication that was simply not possible before.
It’s also true that the rise of social media platforms happened at a time, where computing resources and bandwidth on the internet was not really in a place where it was economically viable to do so in a full distributed way.
But like with all periods of creative destruction in the market, there is a period where the old paradigm becomes stuck in how people think about the world, and when those incumbents start doing everything they can to resist the coming change (through anti-competitive business practices, regulatory capture, etc). Eventually the dam breaks and change comes all at once.
True.
Glad to be part of the change.
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I found this definition on the internet:
An online platform is a digital service that uses the Internet to facilitate interactions between two or more separate but interdependent users (whether they are companies or private individuals). Platforms are places where demand and supply meet electronically.
And I found this table. Is this what you mean by platform?
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I think the improvement you are talking about is shifting to fully distributed ways of doing things?