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Yes, let's all centralize and commercialize everything and stop making software that you can self host.
by oauea 6y ago
Yes, let's all centralize and commercialize everything and stop making software that you can self host.
- snet0 6y agoWhy not both?
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoDue to network effects, users are a tragedy-of-the-commons resource. The more people use one type of solution, the less people there are to use another. We have to choose, as a society as well as individual agents, which types of solutions we use on principle, not merely what's most popular in the moment, lest we find ourselves stuck in local optima.
- Nuzzerino 6y agoAre you familiar with Matrix though? Its very design is intended to mitigate this effect. You can use Matrix and still communicate via a bridge with users on other platforms. https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction