[O]ur online spaces are no longer open ecosystems. Instead “they’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farms that madden the creatures trapped within”.
"As we Irish discovered in the great famine of 1845-49, monocultures are generally not a good idea and we abandon biodiversity at our peril. […] the internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture."
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"Modular design hinges on the simplicity and abstract nature of the interface definition between the modules. A design in which the insides of each module need to know all about each other is not a modular design but an arbitrary partitioning of the bits."
This is one of the big criticisms of #ActivityPub. It's not enough just to implement the spec, I'm told. You have to test it against other implementations and tweak yours until it does what you expect.