Post #1365401

2022-12-16 22:31 UTC

@robin @Edent The fact that centralization is a very serious problem we actually agree on. I would encourage you to dig back in the W3C Vision document effort to see who put "do not favor centralization" as core principle. (Spoiler alert, it was me: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/commit/0aeea69d280bcbdba903fa453184b1a3b403df6e)

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@cdub@mastodon.social 2022-12-16 22:34

@robin @Edent Saying "GOOGLE" is a very serious problem for the Web implies quite strongly that the problem is the existance of Google. And yeah, that would surprise (at least one) person who didn't put you last on their ballot.

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@robin@mastodon.social 2022-12-16 22:51

@cdub @Edent I don't at all doubt that you wrote that there, but (and I know that I'm a broken record on this) centralisation isn't a magical thing that just happens like some kind of officer-involved centralisation — someone has to be doing the centralising. And while G has done some good work in some areas over the years, it's not like dominance today is the natural consequence of product quality. G is intentionally playing the market structure dynamics.

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