After the dotcom bust 20 years ago, there was a shift away from attempts to turn the Internet into a portal owned by a single company (AOL, Yahoo, etc) using incompatible and proprietary tech, in favor of open standards.
This spawned a heydey for things like self-hosted blogs, RSS and XMPP powered by Linux. People rejected lock-in and embraced the benefits and freedom open standards brought. Even Big Tech embraced these standards.
#federation #decentralization #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
This spawned a heydey for things like self-hosted blogs, RSS and XMPP powered by Linux. People rejected lock-in and embraced the benefits and freedom open standards brought. Even Big Tech embraced these standards.
#federation #decentralization #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
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in reply to Kyle Rankin • • •Smartphones allowed tech companies to rewrite the rules around standards, software, lock-in and #privacy as Big Tech companies all sought to control the new personal computer with rules people would have rejected on their laptops. The rush to control SMS and news portals killed XMPP and RSS, respectively.
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in reply to Kyle Rankin • • •This is clearly why Meta is all in on this tech and why Apple is exploring the space as well. Whoever controls this tech controls the portal into the virtual and real world. We will need to be vigilant.
Mirko Adam
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in reply to Kyle Rankin • • •Isn't the whole point of IT to automate things and make them more reliable? This tends to lead to consolidation.
Kyle Rankin
in reply to kurtseifried (he/him) • • •People who are moving to Mastodon have to wholesale rebuild things from scratch because they were moving away from a closed standard. The lock-in and friction to leave a platform to a competitor is by design.
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in reply to kurtseifried (he/him) • •sometimes the server I'm on breaks in the middle of the night, the first one who tries to open it in the morning tells one of the people with the relevant Powers, and it gets fixed.
no need for notifications or anything
no need to bring it back up in the middle of the night when nobody is using it anyway, it will get the messages when it goes back up in the morning.
I think it's on at least 95% of the time, and that's more than enough.
kurtseifried (he/him)
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •It's easy to build a table if you own all the woodworking tools and have a garage and build cabinets for a living.
Kyle Rankin
in reply to kurtseifried (he/him) • • •The consumer can then choose the service (and service provider) that best serves their needs, ability, and budget, just like with email.
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Unknown parent • • •The last time around, I think many folks were not using the Internet and computers during the previous era of lock-in so they had no reason to understand the future harms and risks of embracing it.
It takes time for a company to abuse lock-in it for more money/marketshare in a way that the customer feels. The walled garden seems great unless you want to leave it. The cloud-dependent appliance is great while the service is up.
Notavi
Unknown parent • • •Which means we've got work to do educating people, because allowing these technologies into our lives generally has non-obvious consequences and we'd be better off if more people understood that.
Notavi
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