RE: Setting sun or too little, too late?
It seems that "money for nothing culture" inevitably ends up with the players either fighting over smaller and smaller crumbs; OR with the house of cards collapsing; OR playing to an audience of basically themselves.
Absent the greater community of real people, I think the "$20 lunch photo" crowd will find themselves discovering what their content truly is worth... regardless of whether they stay behind, OR try to move over to the new home of the community.
What's interesting about all this is that the fork in the road we're now at perhaps will being us back to some of Dan's original ideals of "this" blockchain as a repository of information from all manners of content creators, there for people to access for a very long time. Those ideals, mind you, predate the influence of Ned's Hair and the Confederacy of Dunces that seemed to think His Former Vagueness actually had some kind of clue below the hair...
ONWARDS!
It is going to be an interesting progression that will move in several directions simultaneously, the way the nature of decentralization intended. Though, with so much current IRL tumoil, I wouldn't have minded a little stability here.
Yup. Alas, we don't get to choose the timing of our crises.
Like the financial markets... didn't get to choose that the corona crisis just happened to overlap with another major financial debacle... the oil price war. So now we have a meltdown caused by a sort of one-two effect.
yes, no one "chose" it... :D