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A comment on VC-funded companies with products in the fediverse:

My company, StatusNet, ran identi.ca for a long time on VC funding.

It's hard to get a 10x return in markets where open standards prevail. But it's fine to try.

There are other ways to fund services in the fediverse. https://cosocial.ca/ is a cooperative, for example.

If the fediverse remains diverse and competitive, and community, coop and family servers have a place, I'm not opposed to VC-backed companies participating.