no, I understand that, I just don't like or care about those websites that much
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Replying to @alicemazzy @CTZN5
practically everything I read on ad-funded news/opinion websites is either funny or inane bullshit
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I legitimately enjoy wikipedia, scihub, and twitter. stack overflow is useful but nonessential. most of the rest disposable
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and what of the people who make twitter, wikipedia, and stackoverflow, though? what is *their* dependency on google products & services? ;)
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I think we're drawing different meanings from your word "dependent"
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I'm not denying they can exert leverage over the ecosystem I'm saying if they vanished tomorrow I'd be minorly inconvenienced at best
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or, well, in such a vanishing scenario a lot of infrastructure would fail spectacularly but that isn't really the point
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rather that I personally, directly depend very little on their services, and indirect dependencies are largely incidental
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because most google services (mail, maps, calendar, cloud) are fungible, really it's just the advertising infrastructure that isn't
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search is debatable but I'm fairly convinced the inadequacy of competitors is more because the cost doesn't justify catching up
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which is different than network effects making it completely infeasible is would be the case with ad market
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Replying to @alicemazzy
thus my Visa thought experiment. anyone can change gyms and coffeeshops. but if Visa had a monopoly… wherever you go depends on Visa
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shit i shoulda used mastercard. "it's everywhere you want to be" lol
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