It seems like you complain at the same time about AMP standardization and speak in favor of more standardization.
Even on the margin, anything that costs Facebook users also makes it less valuable for its remaining users—it’s a negative feedback loop. The same goes for any other site where users create value for other users, like Twitter or Craigslist or Yelp or Wikipedia. (It’s not an accident that these are some of the most stagnant popular websites!)
Wikipedia’s strategy is not optimized for having a lot of users. In contrast to most other websites, it’s not KPI driven. The active editor count of Wikipedia is still under its 2007 peak.
The Wikimedia Foundation is much better at spending money to host big conferences than it is at spending it to improve user counts.
So far for tech monopolies, people seem to be focused mostly on breakups—e.g. Facebook from Instagram/Whatsapp—but standardization seems to have produced much better outcomes in the past. (I like email and the Web a lot more than National Grid…)
Signal started out by adhering to a federalized standard. It turned out that made it hard to develop new features and they switched away from following a federalized standard.
The email standard provides neither a way to verify the sender of an email nor encrypt your email.
I think you are generally wrong in the assumption that standardization doesn’t produce problems. An association of firefighters is responsible for setting the standards for solar cells in the US. From the firefighter perspective, Module Level Rapid Shutdown is useful. They like being able to shut down solar cells. The fact that it makes solar cells more expensive isn’t important to firefighters.
It seems like you complain at the same time about AMP standardization and speak in favor of more standardization.
Wikipedia’s strategy is not optimized for having a lot of users. In contrast to most other websites, it’s not KPI driven. The active editor count of Wikipedia is still under its 2007 peak.
The Wikimedia Foundation is much better at spending money to host big conferences than it is at spending it to improve user counts.
Signal started out by adhering to a federalized standard. It turned out that made it hard to develop new features and they switched away from following a federalized standard.
The email standard provides neither a way to verify the sender of an email nor encrypt your email.
I think you are generally wrong in the assumption that standardization doesn’t produce problems. An association of firefighters is responsible for setting the standards for solar cells in the US. From the firefighter perspective, Module Level Rapid Shutdown is useful. They like being able to shut down solar cells. The fact that it makes solar cells more expensive isn’t important to firefighters.