i think the article does a wonderful job at illustrating the point without even uttering a single word

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    so i need to download a custom client or a browser plug-in, and i don’t like it.

    The slight technical ceremony is, a bit tongue-in-cheek, needed to keep the umwashed masses away.

    And the technical and media limitations are - and here I am totally serious - needed to keep boundless greedy corporarions away which sooner or later destroy every living or creative thing they touch.

    • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      needed to keep the umwashed masses away.

      and it also keeps me away. i don’t like non-standard software for use-cases where existing software can already do the job well. that’s just artificially fucked-up architecture. artificial scarcity