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I mean.. I don't think typical large corporations are mellow. Microsoft has over $100 billion in cash reserves and their OS near monopoly in many computing are
by ilaksh 6y ago
I mean.. I don't think typical large corporations are mellow.
Microsoft has over $100 billion in cash reserves and their OS near monopoly in many computing areas. It's going to take quite a lot of internal heroism to prevent them from using their position as an advantage. Maybe. But probably nothing will stop it.
Look at gaming. Recently got a Windows laptop. When I initially set it up it asked if I wanted Xbox Game Pass with a ton of games for $10 per month. Who can pass that up? Now they have a deal with EA. I am not a big gamer. Now it seems silly for me to buy more stuff on Steam when I haven't touched most of the stuff on Game Pass.
The basic concept seems obvious to me. Anytime you have a private corporation controlling a platform, it's not going to be fair. See also Google, Amazon, etc.
But thankfully we are making progress on decentralized platforms.
- paulryanrogers 6y ago> But thankfully we are making progress on decentralized platforms. Are we? Curious what progress you see.
- posguy 6y agoMastodon, Pleroma and other ActivityPub platforms have gained traction with millions of users, even Gab was just a (very outdated) fork of Mastodon. Matrix is federating chat, with Mozilla, Gitter and numerous others natively using the Matrix protocol. Meanwhile, there are dozens of mature bridges to pull in IRC, Slack, Discord, etc so you no longer have to install their software: https://matrix.org/bridges/ https://matrix.org/bridges/