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Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Doctorow)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Blockchain: A Solution for Social Media Lock-In
Some people have argued that it would be better if social media was written to the blockchain, and then you could have lots of different clients that could all pull it down. Tommy Spence: The problem is that the system is controlled through these chokepoints that get to decide whether or not the file that's sitting on a server can be accessed from one place or another. "You don't have to trust the source that hosts it," he says.
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