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> You're at least a decade late if you think "hacking" (in the sense of building things) is going to get you out of this situation. The problem with these plat
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
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You're at least a decade late if you think "hacking" (in the sense of building things) is going to get you out of this situation. The problem with these platforms is network effects and lack of interoperability and not in the technical effort required to build an alternative.
In the 90s, the same "arguments" held for Microsoft's applications. The hackers decided to build GNU/Linux and other open source operating systems.
- orwin 3y agoAnd Microsoft got hammered down by anti-monopolistic regulations, which allowed for an open web and thus the Linux desktop, exactly the kind of regulations GP's asking for (DMA).
- Nextgrid 3y ago> The hackers decided to build GNU/Linux and other open source operating systems. Copyright law wasn't used to prevent adversarial interoperability back then. It does now, which is why you can't build alternative clients anymore unless you're out of reach of the US legal system (and even then, good luck getting it onto any app store since again, there are now gatekeepers to merely _installing_ software on one's machine).