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eloisantyesterday at 9:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Also because they closed all the gates of interoperability once they got big enough.

If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web.


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akoboldfryingtoday at 12:04 AM

> If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web.

And we would have kept a more inconvenient web, since without that incentive, Facebook etc. would never have had reason to pay for an army of software developers to implement and improve the site and servers to host it.

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