Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger
It sounds paradoxical, but that’s exactly what i meant.
There were multiple authorities with different ideas which blocked developement. As soon as there was only one Authority left, developement sped up rapidly.
Interesting how the companies mentioned in the article came up with DKIM and others, a Think of the Children™ argument but for spam, only to consolidate their own services as monopolies and walling-out anyone not using @them.
yeah, interoperability should work to encourage development
I’m sorry to break it to you, but look at how much E-Mail, the biggest open Standard has developed.
Without a central Authority behind it, Developement doesn’t work.
Heck, even with a central authority it’s difficult. Just look how many Businesses still use Java 8.
Speaking of email, spam becomes an inevitable problem. Anyone in theory can spin up a federated bot instance to spam the hell out of everyone.
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It sounds paradoxical, but that’s exactly what i meant.
There were multiple authorities with different ideas which blocked developement. As soon as there was only one Authority left, developement sped up rapidly.
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Yeah, of course google didn’t physically block anything, But you had multiple visions diverging and that harmed progress.
The enthusiasts faction running the servers.
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Interesting how the companies mentioned in the article came up with DKIM and others, a Think of the Children™ argument but for spam, only to consolidate their own services as monopolies and walling-out anyone not using @them.