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

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    21 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
      52·
      17 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

      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgEnglish
        52·
        9 hours ago

        i don’t like non-standard software for use-cases where existing software can already do the job well.

        Well, then there the normal web is for you, which certainly does its job well to flood you with ads and track you at every step.