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From @pluralistic. So good: He describes "switching costs" from one social net to another is a poisonous root cause of the power imbalance commercial platforms have over users.

The Fediverse's promise to greatly reduce "switching costs" is vital. We must keep improving the technology so it's seamless & switching costs to approach zero.

Then power shifts back to the users and the cost for bad behavior of any service goes dramatically up.

https://locusmag.com/2023/01/commentary-cory-doctorow-social-quitting/