@scott thanks Scott for adding your Interop 2024 proposal on multi-column layout. I'm annoyed I was too late to add one specifically about the lack of support for break-after:avoid and its ilk (particularly for paged media including ebooks), so I was glad to see it formed part of your proposal.
#Enshittification is the process by which a #platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):
This would be an #interoperability rule that would require Twitter to adopt #Mastodon's approach to server-hopping: click a link to export the list of everyone who follows you on one server, click another link to upload that file to another server, and all your followers and followees are relocated to your new digs:
A Murder Story: Whatever Happened to Interoperability? The eminent Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic, accurately reveals the murder of #interoperability by tech giants in this new post. Long, but totally worth a read. Here’s a sample: “Interoperability wasn’t killed by the reverse-engineer-proof computer nor by the lack of market demand for aftermarket modifications. It was killed by regulatory capture, arising from market concentration, arising from the bad idea that monopolies are efficient sources of consumer welfare, rather than deep-pocketed rent-seekers who leverage their scale to extinguish rivals, corrupt our politics, harm workers, and gouge customers.” #tech#technology#TechNews#CorporateGreedhttps://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-murder-story-whatever-happened-to-interoperability/
watching https://libre.video/videos/watch/fb9554dc-1d02-4287-88ef-a897e488e80c and Cory #Doctorow is most definitely is right about the creeping conglomeration of powers across industries, to a small set of very powerful individuals, due to a lack of consumer rights, the elimination of competition, and the ongoing weakening of anti-trust rules and user protection entities
"For a really competitive, innovative, dynamic marketplace, you need adversarial interoperability - that’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them."
Les projets Open Source qui ne proposent qu'un seul moteur de base de données, vous êtes excluants, je ne veux pas gérer 3DB différentes, dont 2 que je ne maîtrise pas, sur mon petit serveur.
Pareil pour ceux qui imposent un serveur web spécifique ou tout autre service qui devrait être générique #floss#opensource#interoperability
Modern technological products do not primarily interface with the natural world. They interface with other modern tech products.
Without #Interoperability , each exists in an authoritarian-controlled corporate ecosystem, blocking access to competitors through patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.
This is NOT a "free market", and it shows why regulation is necessary to create one in the modern technological world.
After 25 years, I reconnected with a friend through a 1998 email, highlighting the lasting power of open standards. This personal journey underscores the risk of relying on fleeting proprietary tech
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In our digital era, choosing lasting protocols is more vital than ever.
Just finished The Internet Con, by @pluralistic , and it's great. If you've ever wondered why we feel so helpless against bad behaviour by the tech giants, and whether there's anything we can do about it, this is the book for you. It'll make you (justifiably) very cross, but it also offers a path forward that benefits the rest of us, not just the power-hungry billionaires. Read it, send it to your elected representatives, spread the word. And the word is "interoperability".
#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Congress needs to rid us of this scourge, to let us bring back all the benefits of #interoperability. I explain how this all came to be - and what we should do about it - in my new #VersoBooks title, #TheInternetCon: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
We can't exchange encrypted mail with people outside Proton - it just sends a link whose password you then need to share through a secure platform like #Matrix, #Briar, #Session, #SimpleX or #Signal. Then why not just send the message on that secure platform in the first place?
Encryption for some is a lost cause.
Encryption for all or it's just another walled garden.
WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What
The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no defined W3C open standard for messaging, like ...continues
Reading @pluralistic talking about #interoperability realized that has been bog standard in music production for decades. TS/TRS cables mean any brand guitar can go through any brand pedal and then into any brand amp. Likewise, with electronic instruments nearly all of them since the mid 80’s have #midi so any instrument can send performance or clock data to another regardless of brand.
Digression: I'm puzzled by the #interoperability of Firefish and #Mastodon. Both follow #ActivityPub and belong to the #Fediverse. But Nate's question appears on both Firefish and Mastodon, and my answer only appeared on Firefish (until I linked to it here on Mastodon, above). Can someone point me a piece explaining how F&M can work together?
/microblogmemes is a great #lemmy community, but there’s something really off about sharing a post from one #fediverse app to another via a screenshot.
Thank You EU: WhatsApp working on cross-platform interoperability with other messengers
The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other us ...continues
Over the last year, the discussion of #DMA rules for inteoperability largely felt like doubtful whether this would really happen. And the conversation focused on potential challenges to make messaging that's both interoperable and secure.
It's good to see that - if all goes well - interoperable messaging will become a reality.
And even more importantly, that European regulation works and does shape markets.
I'm looking forward to January 2024 and cross-platform chats.