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Related articles and opinion pieces:

• https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open
  • counter argument
• https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/john-gruber-no-understand/
  • rebuttals to counter
• https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • historic precedent and prevailing trends with open protocols
• https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html
  • argument for local communities and against universal social networks