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So then we implement artificial barriers to entry but at the cost of destroying all the diversity in your community If the community consists of people who are
by papaf 6y ago
So then we implement artificial barriers to entry but at the cost of destroying all the diversity in your community
If the community consists of people who are uncomfortable with the feature creep and privacy loss on the modern web, I don't consider Gemini to be an artificial barrier.
To try to explain my reasoning, to join the Vegan community you need to stop eating animals.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoThe barrier to entry described in the post is technical, it's orthogonal to the properties you cite. For example look at signal, it's also made for people who are uncomfortable with privacy loss but it's still accessible to non technical people.
- papaf 6y agoI would argue that the early web had similar technical barriers. Not to gatekeep but because it was young. I also think that setting up Nginx or Apache is only considered easy because we know how to do it. As far as I know, nobody has written an easy blogging app for Gemini. Ironically, if someone did do this it would likely be web based because of the need for an app like experience which Gemini does not support.
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