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Following Conway's Law, the problem with the internet is not so much the internet but the destruction of IRC and the centralization of email. The stagnation in
by jorangreef 6y ago
Following Conway's Law, the problem with the internet is not so much the internet but the destruction of IRC and the centralization of email. The stagnation in open-source email software and security, the embrace-extend-extinguish of AMP for email, and the decline in quality independent email providers. Fix email (and revive IRC) and we can start fixing the internet.
- zanny 6y agoProbably less than 1% of browser users have any idea what IRC or SMTP are. For your average user chat is whatever FAANG puts on their device / screen and email is whatever address one of the several services you signed up for when getting Internet gave you. The Internet is considered broken by Mozilla because corporate centralization has turned the web experience into at most a dozen websites per user down from the potential infinity of domains possible.