off the top of my head: ip kvms, keyboards, 3d printers, home assistant, cameras, zwave or zigbee. Their moat is superb software support and established ecosystem. I think their most challenging competition would be ESP32s or mini pcs. Source: my ahh
Really excited to see Tanstack enter the local-first tooling space. I skimmed the code base and docs, but I don't see any mention of offline support or client side databases (indexeddb or sqlite in opfs). Can I assume offline support is out of the scope for this project?
I don't know, is it moral to give legitimacy and a platform to someone like J. Mark Ramseyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mark_Ramseyer)? Less clear example would be keeping around Roland Fryer.
In the paper they use a ratio defined by comparing a hashtag's popularity on TikTok vs on Instagram. So it accounts for Instagram's biases since they're comparing to them. Not sure if that's what you're asking.
I think it'll also be interesting to see in several years. old.reddit.com and mobile web reddit might be killed off by then, resulting in another spike in migrations. And there might be enough content in the threadiverse by then for it to possibly enter its own golden age like the bacon narwhal age of reddit back in the day.
Although in this optimistic future I'm worried that search engines will be much worse, with a completely closed off Reddit (like e.g. Facebook groups) and a fragmented anti-crawler threadiverse (like the fediverse now).
If you read the article you'll see they mention that this is only possible with platinum coins. So I think their motivation for using a coin is because it's only possible with a coin.
I personally switched to btrfs years ago due to it being (anecdotally) more resilient to power outages and forced reboots. With ext4 it would sometimes result in corruption but btrfs so far has been rock solid. Not a big deal of course but 0 corruption per year is proportionally infinitely better than 1.