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One of the tragedies of platform lock-in is that its victims suffer from a kind of trauma bonding where, instead of blaming the proprietary software or walled-garden platform that's locked them in, they find fault with the thing that's actually going to liberate them. That's lock-in syndrome. We've seen a lot of it lately what with the waves of Twitter Migration.

A bird-of-paradise flower pokes through the railings of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, like a prisoner looking out at freedom outside.

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