Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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The Fediverse is designed to keep switching costs as low as possible, by enshrining the into the technical architecture of the system. The ability to leave a service without paying a price is the best defense we have against the scourge of enshittification.

(Thanks to @TimHarford for inspiring this column via an offhand remark in his kitchen a couple months ago!)

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Simonetta Vezzoso · @wavesblog
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RT @doctorow@twitter.com

The Fediverse is designed to keep switching costs as low as possible, by enshrining the into the technical architecture of the system. The ability to leave a service without paying a price is the best defense we have against the scourge of enshittification. 70/

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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The and the (the principle that anyone can talk to anyone who wants to talk to them) are both key to . They are both imperfect and incomplete, but together, they are stronger, and form a powerful check on both greed and cruelty-based predation:

pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet

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