Comment by Mike Masnick

I know some people have compared your concept of "adversarial interoperability" with my concept of "protocols, not platforms," and I think that they come from similar places and are looking at similar goals, but there’s one element of the adversarial interoperability concept that I like that is not included in my protocols approach: which is that it doesn’t require convincing the big companies to go along. With my Protocols paper, I recognized that sooner or later the various other pressures might force the big social networks to say "hey, this approach gets rid of a bunch of headaches, and even if it means giving up control, it’s doing so in a way that is worth it, because that control we give up takes away a bunch of costly problems." [...] However, it’s still waiting for them to have an epiphany. The adversarial interop approach gets around that, and more or less forces the incumbent to open up. And that’s… compelling. AI Unverifiable source (2020)