♻️ Reblog of
Matthias Ott (matthiasott@mastodon.social)
“The early web's strength was in its interoperability. […] When everyone is adhering to a standard, when everything can talk to everything else, then it's hard to lure users into a walled garden.”
Great essay by @doctorow on corporate extraction and the enshittification of social media platforms like #Twitter, #interoperability, and the promising outlook of having “one big conversation” in the #Fediverse:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies