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"This is one of the great tensions of the web era we are living in and increasingly so as the open web grows. We actually don't violate any particular rule, it
by witten 15y ago
"This is one of the great tensions of the web era we are living in and increasingly so as the open web grows. We actually don't violate any particular rule, it was simply an arbitrary decision that we aren't aligned with the spirit of what they want."
I found this quote interesting, particular the phrase "open web". A single site like Twitter, which can arbitrarily shut down accounts based on alleged TOS violations, seems very distinct from a truly open, federated web.
- chimeracoder 15y ago> a truly open, federated web. Keep in mind, we're talking about a single website (among many) with a proprietary, non-open, non-free codebase, so the contrast shouldn't be surprising. If we were talking about a similar-but-open-source service like Identi.ca, this would play out very differently.