It’s especially ridiculous responding to a blog about isolating these capabilities rather than dropping them. Those are basic security boundaries more than “restrictions.”

Now we have entire departments getting dropped to appease an actual authoritarian regime and suddenly the panic has evaporated.

The “last time” was 20 years after Mexico had secured their independence from Spain and a few years after fending the military was worn down fending off incursions from France. Mexico was barely able to control or defend northern territories from indigenous tribes at the time, never mind a full country’s military.

It was also nearly 180 years ago and has no bearing on modern conflict.

We have a gestapo kidnapping members of our community in the streets and the xenophobic propaganda still has you believing the most vulnerable and underpaid people in our society were ever a serious problem.

You’d be surprised. Modern Swift concurrency is relatively new and the market for Swift devs is small. Finding good explainers on basic Swift concepts isn’t always easy.

I’m extremely grateful to the handful of Swift bloggers who regularly share quality content.

Not everyone interested in doing detective work to find accounts related to their interests. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect social media platforms to help with that discovery.

If preventing centralization is important to you, then you should care about the product experience of the decentralized platforms.

For our company of >30 people this amounted to a ~$7k/mo increase.