God those quotes in the beginning made me mad. I’m glad that the article addresses them.

I cited email as an example yesterday of big companies running big instances and not extinguishing the openness that made the platform great Really! You go and try and use an email provider that isn’t the big three or four. People will laugh, you won’t be able to send email without it going directly to spam, and eventually you’ll go right back to the mega corps that “promise safety”