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Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-In on Mastodon (thenewstack.io)
17 points by yogthos on Dec 27, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


He notes that it was government action that broke up the phone monopoly to allow multiple phone companies. That's probably a good precedent to look at. It's super unlikely that governments will break up any social media company, and the resulting phone systems are sufficiently insecure that SWATting, phone scams and zero-days transmitted by SMS are as common as mosquitos.




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