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Mind elaborating on why you think that should be a law?

• mschuster91 4y ago
  Because platforms intentionally go away from their open beginnings once they gain traction and moat. Facebook's removal of xmpp was the first, then Twitter came along with restricting features to only the official client (polls and medis in DMs) years ago, and now it's cat and mouse, with Twitter kicking off apps with zero notice. Even Reddit, which has historically been extremely open towards third party apps, now gates features - RIF for example can't integrate with rewards, which is IMO pretty moronic as it could be a pretty good revenue stream for Reddit. Capitalism has failed, and it's high time governments step in to break open the walls of the gardens.
  • hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
    I’m not saying that walled gardens aren’t bad, but they’re the property of those organisations. Even if you wanna start bashing holes into problematic gardens then they’d be the bottom of the list, cloud providers being more open (or at least consistent) would have a massive reduction in human time / cost.
    • honkler 4y ago
      property is a man made idea. No reason to treat is as something sacred. And we already don't care about property when government bails out these crooks.
      • hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
        On that basis, hand over the keys to your house and car and kindly vacate promptly.