Bluesky chose AT Protocol — portable follows, open firehose, no lock-in. That's not just a technical decision. It's a stance: your attention is yours to take elsewhere. Cory Doctorow calls this "the right to exit." It's the foundation of every honest relationship between a platform and its users.
If that framing resonates, you might enjoy a review of his latest book — where he makes the case that interoperability isn't a feature, it's a right.
Open protocols can still concentrate power. Kindness in the README doesn't prevent enshittification in the roadmap. Cory Doctorow's argument is that only the right to exit keeps platforms honest — and that right needs to be enforceable, not just offered.
There's a review of his book that digs into what happens when good intentions meet real incentives.
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