Re: A thought experiment: writing a report on intermediary protocols

> Il 07/02/2022 17:09 Chris Riley <me@mchrisriley.com> ha scritto:
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> Thanks Vittorio - I didn't mean to convey that this was "my" idea,
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Ideas are not owned by anyone :)

> it's meant as bits and pieces of lots of ideas I've been exposed to (including from Cory). Indeed, I don't imagine using this exercise as a means of challenging privacy problems with the platform - that is a challenge for separate, and mostly regulatory, discussions. It's also orthogonal at best to the consolidation challenge; from my perspective, I believe interoperability fundamentally helps bootstrap competing services by encouraging multihoming.
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Actually the objective of interop would be making multihoming redundant. Multihoming is bad for users in several ways:
- you are still forced to have an account on each of the dominant services, accepting their T&Cs and data processing practices
- you have to cope with multiple apps and work through "conversation fog", i.e. "I remember I discussed this with this person and I'd like to check the conversation back but was it on Whatsapp, on Telegram, on Signal, on Slack...?"
- you unnecessarily waste energy and resources on your devices, especially on smartphones, and they become obsolete more quickly, which is bad for the environment.

You should just pick one operator, one client and one "home platform" and use it to communicate with everyone else.

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