Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
We're living through the great technological regression of the early 21st century. While the rest of civilization spent two centuries figuring out that interoperability is the engine of prosperity, Big Tech decided to cosplay as medieval barons. This is *precisely* backwards. The entire project of modernity - from standardized shipping containers to telephone networks to the electromagnetic spectrum itself - has been about creating universal protocols that let anyone talk to anyone, ship anything anywhere, plug into any socket. We figured out decades ago that artificial incompatibility is just economic vandalism dressed up as competitive advantage.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
But somehow, in the most connected age in human history, we've accepted digital apartheid as inevitable. Your iPhone can't talk to Android in any meaningful way. Your Facebook data can't migrate to anywhere useful. Your Kindle books live and die in Amazon's walled garden like digital mayflies. Meanwhile, the rest of the economy operates on actual market principles. Your credit card works everywhere. Your phone calls reach everyone. Your shipping containers fit on any truck, train, or boat on Earth. This isn't technological limitation - it's deliberate technological vandalism in service of rent extraction.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
This is the crypto endgame in miniature: take a genuinely revolutionary technology - programmable money, uncensorable networks, user-owned data - and somehow end up recreating every pathology of the system you were supposed to replace. It's like inventing the printing press and using it exclusively to hand-copy Bibles. It's like the Internet went backwards through evolutionary time and decided that AOL had the right idea all along.
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RoboCopsGoneMad
@robocopsgonemad
Honestly, self hosting and homelabs are blowing up in my social sphere and I really think this is why.
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