Re:Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
by charcircuit on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:23AM
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>By what measure?
Time and money lost to them. The idea of creating a web closed from those people starts to look very attractive when you have to spend time multiple times a day cleaning out spam from your site.
>Under what conditions you think spam/fraud would (more or less) 'destroy' the open web?
It's already happening.
>And what does that destruction look like to you?
The destruction looks like more websites able to offer free or cheap services. A great reduction in spam comments. More effective ads. For good actors nothing really changes.
Time and money lost to them. The idea of creating a web closed from those people starts to look very attractive when you have to spend time multiple times a day cleaning out spam from your site.
>Under what conditions you think spam/fraud would (more or less) 'destroy' the open web?
It's already happening.
>And what does that destruction look like to you?
The destruction looks like more websites able to offer free or cheap services. A great reduction in spam comments. More effective ads. For good actors nothing really changes.