From https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html:
> There’s only one way for a centralised service to become universal: impose your vision as a new universal standard. Create a new norm and threat every divergence as a dangerous dissidence.
Very nicely said.
One might be almost tempted to say that this sounds like an analogy for some power structures in society.
Thanks to @ploum for writing this and to @rysiek for sending it my way!