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- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users - Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactio

- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users - Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactions - These apps are used like utilities but governed as services. It is effectively impossible to exist without big tech products right now, as an individual and as a business. We need to fight for digital rights. - Communication should be as essential a utility, like water and electricity. - Centralized apps have too much power over the internet - Google was useless when Reddit went down - one clown (Musk) should not have an outsized control on the means of communication. He can't cut my water, and he shouldn't be allowed to cut my communication. - alternatives are impractical and small and as long as big tech is allowed to throw money and kill/acquire/impede smaller apps we have a problem - A democratised communication standard would eliminate the need to use specific apps like WhatsApp or Twitter for communication and information. - this will allow the web to fulfill one of its most important functions, which is, being searchable and archivable. - profit incentives do not align for big tech to make the internet we want. Small tech will make the internet we deserve.

zenmaster10665 3y ago
The issue with this theory is that there is no obvious way to have both deep interoperability between apps as well as innovation. Interoperability is a contract,and that contract will slow down product evolution and lead to worse consumer products.
- lopis 3y ago
  Maybe it's time we decide what's better for us in the long term, and accept slower innovation?
- shreyshnaccount 3y ago
  That's certainly not true. Interoperability for basic features such as text, photos, videos, posts and comments doesn't mean apps are not free to add more features. Also, having an extendable framework will easily account for this
  - zenmaster10665 3y ago
    some form of interoperability is already happening for some of those data types (or at least starting with portability). See the Data Transfer Initiative (dti.org) The issue is that forced interoperability will lead to platforms creating an interoperable (and less fully-featured) version of their app to suit the regulations. I do think that interop is important, but I think it is a harder problem than most people think.

zenmaster10665 3y ago

The issue with this theory is that there is no obvious way to have both deep interoperability between apps as well as innovation. Interoperability is a contract,and that contract will slow down product evolution and lead to worse consumer products.

lopis 3y ago
Maybe it's time we decide what's better for us in the long term, and accept slower innovation?
shreyshnaccount 3y ago
That's certainly not true. Interoperability for basic features such as text, photos, videos, posts and comments doesn't mean apps are not free to add more features. Also, having an extendable framework will easily account for this
- zenmaster10665 3y ago
  some form of interoperability is already happening for some of those data types (or at least starting with portability). See the Data Transfer Initiative (dti.org) The issue is that forced interoperability will lead to platforms creating an interoperable (and less fully-featured) version of their app to suit the regulations. I do think that interop is important, but I think it is a harder problem than most people think.