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Reading the article and the parent comment I'm pretty sure that's the intent. By 'balkanizing' the users, the power is reduced and the network as a cohesive uni
by deft 7y ago
Reading the article and the parent comment I'm pretty sure that's the intent. By 'balkanizing' the users, the power is reduced and the network as a cohesive unit of control is dismantled.
- vkou 7y agoJust because the control is decentralized, doesn't mean that it won't be any less insidious. Please look at Mastodon, for an example.
- Barrin92 7y agothe question is why the end-user would want balkanization, other than for the abstract reason to limit power, which almost never works (or everyone would be installing firefox right now). People seem to be allergic to balkanization. They want the convenience of typing a search result, a movie title, or a name into the platform instead of having to jump over ten. Even Mastodon with its hybrid model is unable to attract a significant amount of users from Facebook or Twitter. Open APIs probably won't result in significant competition, and even if they do the privacy concerns exist for small companies as much as for larger ones, see Cambridge Analytica which with open APIs would basically roam around freely.