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> You could, but generally people can’t. They learn a set of narrow workflows and never explore beyond.

The point is you CAN. Joe can in theory do it, and Steve can make an alternative piece of software to do it for Joe. In most other centralized places (like social media), you CANNOT. Joe cannot take his data off of Facebook and interact with it outside of the platform or move it to another platform.



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