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What The OG App did was the equivalent of building and distributing a third-party telephone, rather than everyone having to use one rented from Ma Bell.
by josephcsible 4y ago
What The OG App did was the equivalent of building and distributing a third-party telephone, rather than everyone having to use one rented from Ma Bell.
- voidwtf 4y agoThis is only true if you also agree that they used a pair of alligator clips and attached it to the copper wires on the pole as well. The infrastructure has real costs, the api development, storage, and maintenance that they aren’t compensating Meta to use.
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- warent 4y agoIn this case, the third-party telephone is allowing unlimited free calls using Ma Bell's infrastructure... I agree with you that Meta is ass for society. Simultaneously, these third-parties are parasitic. Ultimately everyone sucks here.
- josephcsible 4y agoThe solution to that is to fix your infrastructure to not trust the client, rather than trying to enforce use of a particular client.
- cryptonector 4y agoThe "infrastructure" here is advertising, or rather, the need to fund real world things with advertising because there's no way yet to micrometer what users consume on the internet and get them cough up money for it.
- josephcsible 4y agoSure, that might be a problem. But it should be Meta's problem, and they shouldn't be able to make it The OG App's problem or any individual user's problem.