I miss the days when our best minds developed protocols instead of products. The last 15 years has been just the commodification and destruction of everything the previous generation has built.

I'm frankly surprised email has stood up as well as it has, even if it is nearly impossible to run your own email server these days.

In the mid-to-late teens IRC was making something of a comeback and then Slack EEE'd it.

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simonjgreen 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I had optimism for Slack when they launched IRC and XMPP gateways natively. Sadly, this is now long dead.

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pyrale 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The last 15 years has been just the commodification

Just a lexical correction to your message: the establishment of standard protocols is a process of comodification. The main goal of making a product "unique" and not interoperable is to avoid being comoditized.

	▲	harpiaharpyja 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, "commodification" is the wrong word here. I'm not sure what the best word would be, but it would be more along the lines of "extraction" or "exploitation". As in: The last 15 years has been just relentless attempts to bend and twist everything the previous generation has built to extract value instead of creating it. Something like that.