> On Apr 28, 2022, at 1:49 AM, Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > If there is any lesson from all this, I suspect it's that any centralized > communication service even run by the most competent, well intentioned, > humble and not-profit-oriented (clearly, judging from their stock price) > founders & techs is susceptable to subsequent capture by others. As the open > source software community figured out, the "right to fork" is the only > meaningful check on the winner-take-all power-corrupts dynamic in networks. > > So I think the answer is, those founders should either make their service > with, or just go use one of the existing implementations of, Mastodon or > other emerging dweb alternatives.
Yep, what Brian said.
The only legitimate way to do anything, pretty much, is by inclusively
designing an open protocol, and then letting people who want to use it
implement it. If the protocol is well designed, you’re done. No “service”
needed.
-Bill
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