Update 2025-05-20-bluesky-business-model-risk-factors.md

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 - If you can somehow seed a generic payment mechanism into Bluesky, I'd gladly pay a cut of a "Buy Now" button for my own stuff to Bluesky and use it if others I followed were using it. Essentially weaving in something like Gumroad / Venmo would be incredibly powerful *but only if it was sufficiently heterogeneous to avoid paid placement taking the lionshare.*
 
-- If you make public commitments that are verifiable to metered growths and caps, that'd go a long way too. For example, things that get more expensive the bigger they get to discourage rapid growth hacking as a defacto model / giant buys from giant companies would go a long way. Or straight up caps that let people earn only up to a certain point that'd guarantee that no one actor can exert too much influence over the overall revenue stream, then you'd be doing something that at least would be more of a "two way door" than a "one way door" in that those values could be tuned to ensure that the overall system stays healthy enough, long enough, to get atproto to a stable point of real operation independence.
+- If you make public commitments that are verifiable to metered growths and caps, that'd go a long way too. For example, things that get more expensive the bigger they get to discourage rapid growth hacking as a defacto model / giant buys from giant companies would go a long way. Or straight up caps that let people earn only up to a certain point to guarantee that no one actor can exert too much influence over the overall revenue stream. This would at least be more of a "two way door" than a "one way door" in that those values could be tuned to ensure that the overall system stays healthy enough, long enough, to get atproto to a stable point of real operation independence.
 
 - If you set up a trust of some sort and either dumped a multi-year grant into it or committed to a rather hefty percentage share of Bluesky revenue and then appointed a managing director for an independent atproto development team... or did this split at the peer to peer level where some money goes to Bluesky directly while others go into this earmarked fund, then you'd have a counterweight in place that meant that revenue growth would always mean further investment in the protocol *by design* and this would create a balancing force.