Excellently sums up how Internet platforms #socialmedia#saas went wrong these last 15yrs.
They actively prevent you from leaving or transferring your account. They don't let you export data in meaningful ways. Don't support backups. Wall you in and hold your friendships hostage.
By doing this, they stifled innovation, competition and improvement,
making things worse for everyone by preventing improvement!
Point in case: in #ycombinator and other accelerators, facebook clones never get funding, because even if you build a much better platform, FB would not allow you to switch there.
Point in case: SaaS is all the rage in business, because it follows the same principle of catching customers and keeping full control over what they do and have.
The additional problem today is. Some platforms got so big, that the power balance itself will distort things, even if interoperability is mandated.
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