My other question though, if you're willing to share, what was the feeling that you had reading my post and writing your initial response?
When I asked myself the initial question I first had a sinking feeling and then realizing just how much I'm emotionally attached to the idea of the open web.
The feeling I had in reading your post was anger and bitterness at the players who strangled the open web in the name of monetization: Chief among them Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. They gave us trojan horses of convenience and snatched away our freedom.
I'm trying to separate my feelings about the open web from the ideals that underly my conception of it. They're too intertwined in my head and it's making it hard to think critically about solutions to centralization.
That actually makes some sense. I've been wondering if open source software's ideals and systems to realize them are undermined by essentially being a hack on top of our existing intellectual property system. I hear there's a parallel culture to oss in parts of China like Shenzhen. Need to read up.
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When I asked myself the initial question I first had a sinking feeling and then realizing just how much I'm emotionally attached to the idea of the open web.
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