The lesson to take from this, by the way, is that walled-garden software ecosystems are, fundamentally, centralized power structures which are going to create a conflict over who controls them.
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1474985481737625606
If something is fully decentralized (an ideal which very few existing technologies or social structures live up to), there is nothing to fight for control of.
With app stores, we see corporations attempting to impose their own content policy rules... and we also see governments making rules about the rules.
This is a power struggle. The centralized power structure exists, so there's a fight over who controls it.
The enforcement ends up having a lot of harmful effects. Foone's thread and essays elaborate more on why that happens, but we'd like to focus on just one of the reasons right now: Humans are not good at making rules for ourselves.
Our personal conclusion is that this centralized power should not exist. We need to all be pursuing, and demanding, forms of software distribution which do not create a single point of control where censorship can be imposed.
It's obvious that this is possible because it's what we *had* before everything became app stores.
Dangle a little money in people's faces and they forget their ideals, apparently.
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