slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The path to technology that serves open societies (qua Popper) flows directly through open sysetms of the sort @mnot describes. And through those open systems, we can achieve the goal of interoperability, and through it, portability.
And as @pluralistic will tell you, that's how you fix the outsized power of these petty tyrants. The gatekeepers only get away with extraction because they denigrate (and sometimes dynamite) the foundations of portable, interoperable computing: open access to APIs.