"Every week brings a new chorus of voices demanding that [insert tech giant] must “do better” [...] We’ve become digital peasants, petitioning various lords and kings to please, please fix the internet for us."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/
Yes, maybe you don't like life outside of #youtube . But if you only publish there, you've become a digital peasant subject to the whims of your lord.
Youtube is not my friend, so if you stay confined there, I won't watch you.
#digitalsovereignty
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/
Yes, maybe you don't like life outside of #youtube . But if you only publish there, you've become a digital peasant subject to the whims of your lord.
Youtube is not my friend, so if you stay confined there, I won't watch you.
#digitalsovereignty
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, though all of it applies equally to other decentralized social media ecosys…Techdirt
Doug Webb •