The path to technology that serves open societies (qua Popper) flows directly through open systems of the sort Mark Nottingham (npub1djp…ept4) describes. And through those open systems, we can achieve the goal of interoperability, and through it, portability.
And as Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) will tell you, that's how you fix the outsized power of these petty tyrants. The gatekeepers only get away with extraction because they erode (and sometimes dynamite) the foundations of portable, interoperable computing: open access to APIs.
Alex Russell
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2026-02-20 08:16:58 UTC
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