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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] 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The danger here is that they make "open" standards so horrendously complex and ever evolving that only the billionaire mega corporations can can realistically keep up with them.

See the web where Google now control it completely by having such an enormous amount of code that even Microsoft couldn't be arsed to keep up, or Office Open XML, where 100% compatibility is limited to exactly one product: The one that made it. I just downloaded the documentation for the standard. It is over 5000 fucking pages long. That was part 1 of 4.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And those 5000 pages were probably automatically generated from ... something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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