It makes me so happy this is still a known meme.

Code is like a set of Lego pieces you put together to make an app or website. Usually, you have to go to Windows’ house to play with Windows Legos, and you can’t play with Windows Legos at iOS’s house. If you tried to put a Windows Lego on an iOS Lego, they wouldn’t fit. This means that if you want to make something with Legos, you have to do it in their house and play by their rules.

Website Legos are special. You can play with Website Legos at the public library, and any other kids who go to the library - a public place that’s always open to everyone - can play with Website Legos too. Even Windows and iOS can come to the library and play with Website Legos. No one gets to decide what Legos are allowed or who gets to play with them, and kids can build things together because their Legos fit together.

What Chrome is doing is bad because they want to take all the Website Legos back to their house, and force every kid in town to come to their house if they want to play with Legos. That way, Chrome gets to decide who is allowed inside, and can ban any Lego shapes they don’t like from their house.

We need to stop Chrome, because every kid deserves to play with Legos, and kids make much cooler things when they can all work together with a shared Lego set.

Its not a tech issue, its a finance issue.

The tech industry has always been highly speculative. What we saw in the 2010s was only made possible through venture capital and high digital advertising budgets.

Now that there’s uncertainty and investments are expensive due to high interest rates, VC and advertisers are pulling back. As a result, we’re seeing a bunch of business models that have never been viable on their own have to try and support themselves for the first time.