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@wion @aral I have the notion that an oligarchy (demi-centralization?) is the steady state of the fediverse. What's notable here is that there are serious dollar sums (i.e. paychecks) involved in having stable and reliable admins and mods(I should blog about operational reality sometime). That argues for some flavor of paidness ($5/mo for a gold star account?) and leaves a huge vulnerability to VCs gobbling the space.

A USF could effectively organize and resist the VC money.