← Feed

Posts

• How Tech Companies Lie to You.

• Post #242083

  I recently read “The internet con: How to seize the means of computation”. Doctorow talks about the problem of walled gardens (basically that you can’t write people on WhatsApp from Signal for example). He also writes that forcing this may compromise privacy protocols of different apps. I thought of some more ways to improve competition: Force social media “providers” to allow users to make “out of app” automatic messages. It would make people able to automatically send “hey I stopped using...