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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Last year I pointed out that Apple has effectively broken this permissionless structure and hollowed out the internet's standards bodies:
https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/
This situation persists, and it matters because what Apple (and to a lesser extent, Google's Android team) are doing here is to enact an *enclosure agenda*.
The enclosure agenda works by lacing open and standardised technologies with proprietary entrypoints, backed by legal agreements everyone who wants to play must sign.