In the #geekproblem view, the metaphor from crossing a protocol flow is a gateway, where in the #OMN it's a bridge.

Do you understand that is about CONTROL or TRUST as a path we need to take?

A gate is locked, a bridge is a free flow, in everyday life we don't have gates on bridges, this simple truth is non-obverse to the #geekproblem and their coding metaphors

#RSS is a bridge, closed source API is generally a gate.