Cory Doctorow Asks: Can Interoperability End 'Enshittification' and Fix Social Media?
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into "the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints."
If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal charges, worker revolts, and guerrilla warfare with interoperators), then you have the means, motive and opportunity to turn your service into a giant pile of shit... Every economy is forever a-crawl with parasites and monst
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