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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I love the fediverse, but it hasn’t fully solved the migration need problem. If I open an account on an instance which I later discover I don’t like, I have to migrate for that as well.

    The point as I see it is just limited to who do I want to follow, and what platforms can I use to do so? If bluesky turns to shit in a decade, but I get value out of it for that decade, maybe that’s enough for my needs.

    (FWIW, I am not on bluesky)






  • There didn’t even need to be a deliberate cartel for this to happen either.

    Amazon realized it could make money and grow the company by offering cloud services and now AWS runs something like 30% of the internet.

    Google turned their leading search algorithms into an extensive tracking and advertising platform that integrates with most of the internet.

    Apple decided that people don’t need to be allowed to tinker with and repair their own devices so that hardware can be locked into a four-year cycle of planned obsolescence.

    A whole bunch of profit-maximizing firms did the hard job of controlling everything for the governments.