Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

It's nice to see an article that is just interesting. Although trying to model an environment of extreme freedom as 'feudal' is one of the big philosophic mistakes in the current discourse. Although it is easy to establish that the majors are very sticky they're only sticky as long as they do a good job. Groups like AWS or Google are actually pretty vulnerable - the US right wing looked like it was about to build a complete alternative internet for a while there until the management in tech relented and allowed them to speak up in public. Places like AWS had to pull their head in and the spin offs from that like Rumble or Truth Social haven't gone away, they just partially marginalised when the censorship backed off. That isn't how feudal revolts work in my understanding; typically peasants just got squished by better armed, armoured and organised soldier classes.