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’20: Independent forums are mostly dead, swallowed up by Reddit, social media, and the like. I cannot overemphasize how much the lesson of the web is that people, given the choice between the freedom of operating and managing their own platform, and running a centralized platform that they do not control, will choose the centralized platform. The desire of regular people with things to do to also become systems administrators is far less th…

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·Dec 1, 2020

A corollary to this — and, for me, the number one lesson of all technology — is that, given the choice, the majority of people will opt for the easiest path to do anything if it gives them approximately the same (short term) benefits.

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