> Generally speaking: The more independence a technology gives you, the higher its barrier for adoption. Not at all. No idea where the author got that weird id

> Generally speaking: The more independence a technology gives you, the higher its barrier for adoption. Not at all. No idea where the author got that weird idea from. RSS is nothing like high barrier. IRC neither - list rooms, choose your nick, and chat within 1 minute - no need to even create an account! Everyone who was non-technical was using both of those well before there was anything else. Ridiculous take. It's not because those technologies were displaced that they were "high barrier". It's because the newer platforms brought other benefits (and had marketing budgets too, powered by ads).