To say centralized applications are “authoritarian” is not to disparage them. It’s a description of their political design. Users have no mechanisms to constrain or override the server’s decisions. There are no “laws” which restrict the power of the server.
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Im going to riff on this later: “The basic act of political revolution is to “go to another service.” It’s in that moment that users become most cognizant of how little they owned before, as they can take nothing with them.”
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