I have a hunch that once people saw the economic potential of software, they started looking for ways to “scale it up” and we haven’t stopped searching yet.
The comparison to city infrastructure feels a lot like fedi projects. ActivityPub is the network of streets and masto, lemmy, etc are the construction companies for all the buildings on those streets.
Closed source projects feel clumsy in this metaphor because they are so heavily gated to preserve their surveillance potential.
The comparison to city infrastructure feels a lot like fedi projects. ActivityPub is the network of streets and masto, lemmy, etc are the construction companies for all the buildings on those streets.
Closed source projects feel clumsy in this metaphor because they are so heavily gated to preserve their surveillance potential.