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0 pointsturminal4y ago0 comments

Prioritizing your market share over private gains of your users is precisely the thing that makes you "not an ally of user freedom"

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> Prioritizing your market share over private gains of your users

Network effects make these virtually indistinguishable. If a network is unusable it doesn’t help anyone.

There may be an argument, however, for charging for the opt out.

Unusable is a big stretch

If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.

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0 pointsturminal4y ago0 comments

Prioritizing your market share over private gains of your users is precisely the thing that makes you "not an ally of user freedom"

> Prioritizing your market share over private gains of your users

Network effects make these virtually indistinguishable. If a network is unusable it doesn’t help anyone.

There may be an argument, however, for charging for the opt out.

Unusable is a big stretch

If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse