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It's becoming ever clearer that the quest for a free #internet will be one of the relevant struggles going forward.

The sheer power of #dezinformatsiya spread by internet, alone, should be enough to establish that. Much like any powerful device/weapon/notion, the internet can be used for good or evil. Leaving it to corporate greed is not working too well, for the rest of us, in case nobody has noticed.

The internet was born de-centralized. Its roots were people's pooled resources, and time, skill and effort of tech inclined volunteers in online communities.

Corporations saw that, decided to entrap less tech inclined majority, and transform popular access to those communities into a product. They steal people's agency. Web2.0. Then Web3.0. Just new names for #enshittification and corporate greed.

De-centralized #FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) networks and their instances, such as the #fediverse, are meant to be a place to bring the internet back to the people, to dismantle the corporate take over of it, to revert back from the idiocy of "web2.0", and refuse the theft of our AGENCY, as online denizens.

This must be the revolution of Web1.0+, if we are to avoid becoming products, only.

The internet must return to its origin as an online community, and not a pool of digital cattle, if technologically advanced/dependent societies - and #democracy itself, even - are to survive