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[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse (hackaday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another example here is the Matrix protocol, specifically designed from the ground up to be open and distributed. In reality, the only option for full-featured stable server software is the one maintained by the project itself, and there aren't a lot of third party clients available.

Openness itself is a good goal, but the complexity itself can pose a barrier openness.

[–] WhyJiffie 1 points 1 month ago

true, but at least they have been working on modularizing it for a few years, and making it so that even unsupported message types can be displayed to some level