@michaelchampion@indieweb.social
Post #1385021
2022-12-19 19:31 UTC
@robin @cdub @danbri
3. That's been my experience in the tech industy -- In the 70's we bemoaned the dominance of IBM and ATT and dreamed of a world free of their self-preserving obstruction. In the '80s-90s they had been displaced and now Microsoft was the evil dominant power holding back progress. Then in the 2000's (ahem, I sold my soul and was assimilated into Microsoft) but Google became the oppressive central power on whom we blame everything
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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2022-12-19 19:38
@robin @cdub @danbri 4.I don't know where that leaves us. AMP is a good case study / thought experiment. Sure, no elected governing body would have accepted it. Trouble is, it solved an actual user problem that the web architecture created and never found a consensus fix for. As far as I can tell, Google didn't so much exploit their power to force AMP on the world as create a palatable solution for users that leveraged and enhanced their own power as well.