This can't end well. I've already sent emails to our exec and data security departments about this.

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@devlogic @nkrishnaswami I’m sure the actual reason for this is so that they can do stuff to try to optimize quality of the audio and video streams, but it also doesn’t feel great. And also: what viable competitor won’t be doing the same thing?

@mpirnat @devlogic @nkrishnaswami "What viable competitor won’t be doing the same thing?"

Same answer as with social media and the fediverse: the one where the software and the service providers are not the same party and you're able to communicate with anyone regardless of whether you're both users of a common service provider.

This is the only answer to tech capitalism.

(Edit: well, short of revolution & guillotines. 😈)

@dalias @mpirnat @devlogic @nkrishnaswami Let’s discuss this option you’ve brought up…