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by prox 1988 days ago
And there has never been the incentive. People complain about walled gardens, but unless you dedicated to FOSS, any commercial venture (with a few exceptions) produces apps and tools that feed the master and excludes other parties.

It might even be profitable to start a venture that allows complete easy self hosting of content.

Wasn’t Berners-Lee working on something like this with his pods?

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> And there has never been the incentive.

For FAANG. Instead of improving standards such as XMPP and RSS, they actively ditched them to create walled gardens..

Yeah, absolutely agree.