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The “internally federated” PDS servers worked exactly like a self-hosted PDS. Bluesky made one addition, to wrap the internal PDS servers into a new service called “Entryway,” which provides the “bsky.social” identity to the PDSes. Entryway will become the “official” Bluesky OAuth authorization server for users who choose bsky.social servers, and one operated as a self-hosted server.
Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Imagine you put a GPS tracker on a dog, then you set him free to run in the countryside.
He dashes.
He digs.
He stops to sniff.
He romps with another dog.
Later, when you map his recorded GPS data, you see that he generally went north-east.
But would you say that going north-east is his passion and purpose?
You are like the dog.
Don’t seek a story of purpose to guide or label your fascinations.
An Interview With Marc Andreessen About AI and How You Change the World
stratechery.com
Basically if you’re a regular old venture capitalist and you invest $1 billion in an artificial intelligence startup at a $10 billion valuation, you only make money if the startup eventually sells or goes public at a higher valuation. But if you’re Amazon and you invest $1 billion in an AI startup at a $10 billion valuation, and as part of the deal it agrees to pay you $500 million a year for computing power, you can make money on the commercial deal even if the investment doesn’t work out. You are investing not only to make money on the deal, but also to increase your own revenue. (And you might not even be investing cash — the $1 billion might be in the form of compute rather than money.) This lowers your bar for investing,3 so you will be willing to invest more money at higher valuations in AI startups if you can also get the commercial deals. Which means that regular old VCs will either be frozen out of those deals, or will have to overpay for them.
Shareholders Are People, Too
bloomberg.com
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