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unethical_banyesterday at 3:13 PM0 repliesview on HN

Nothing open source and self hostable will be a "platform" then. Being dependent on a central platform/identity server is the way they control you and increase the friction of leaving.

I think the client side could still be a "platform" like pidgin, allowing login and simultaneous participatiin in multiple servers, without needing to be fully centralized.

What disappoints me about this list is the lack of consideration for video calls and screenshare.