3/ Setting aside the implicit high growth needs of VCs and the founders who approach them which do color this statement a bit, it seems like a pretty sound product heuristic. (Fuck, up until recently, I was still using Dotster for my domains because of switching costs to my AWS!)
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4/ Meanwhile, I'm a sophisticated computer user who thinks endlessly about the harmful interactions between social media, surveillance capitalism, and the attention economy. I care about privacy — my own and everyone else's. And...I still use fucking Gmail.
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5/ Spoiler alert: I can't imagine strong privacy as anything other than a perceived marginal improvement, if it's even perceived as an improvement at all.
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6/ I have so many smart and passionate friends working on solutions to the problem of privacy but even in the era of endless mass data breaches and intentional exploitation, people express the same kind of concern for it as they do for alternative Alternate Side Parking rules.
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7/ Again, I *want* privacy advocates to win — I am one of them! But privacy-first design seems like an exercise in futility *if the goal is mass adoption.* And, if that's not the goal, then you're just selling a luxury good which is a far less useful thing to advocate for.
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I'm currently working on a talk called Against Web Scale, and I think you're making a classic fallacy here: you're equating "success" with "mass adoption", which is only a victory if you're using monetized adoption as your success metric. The problem is success metrics.
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Maybe? The
#indieweb folks make a similar point, trying to say you move it by the accretion of new norms and mediums that aren't captured or capturable by platforms. I'm just not convinced that's viable.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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In an arena where web-scale platforms face off against the indieweb, I think the former wins most of the time, and evolutionary out-competes. I'm looking for products that can forge transformative ecosystems at an accelerated rate, and is capable of fending off the giants.
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I think "fending off" is a mistake. I think the win is in a solution that lives client-side and acts as an intermediary between any number of services. I shouldn't go to https://twitter.com for my twitter access I should go to localhost:3000 and do twitter, mastodon, email
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We have individual users against massive competing infrastructures. We need something massive on the client-side, some standardized sanitation interface that allows us to control what gets through and to whom. Platforms just become mechanisms of transmission.
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I have wanted exactly this for a very long time and have a number of experiments in this vein. We should chat more seriously about what it could look like.
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