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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Low Switching Cost of Federated Media

Federated media has a low switching cost built into it. With two clicks, you can leave one federated server and download all of the people who follow you to another Fediverse server. You could just do it without the API. And in fact, if there was like the potential for a bot to be built without a legal remedy, without being able to go in and say, Hey, you know, you're violating the computer fraud and abuse act. It's a felony,. When they contemplate nerfing the API, they would have to pay hundreds of engineers to fight bots. Right? We're going to have this unquantifiable risk from just having to take scarce engineering resources and

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