Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
That doesn't solve everything, not nearly. But I think it's an important progressive value, and I do think progressive organizing and activism in general needs to be more proactive about resisting centralized *ownership*.
Musk and Zuckerberg have shown the harm that centralized ownership can do to other progressive values, to be sure.
Again, it's not the complete story, but I do think it's a *part*.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
I should add that there's another piece to this as well. While I've seen no shortage of centralized platforms fail, and am thus personally weary and frankly too tired to try and kick that football again, I *also* think there's progressive value in not having centralized ownership over human communication.
Right now, the best way I know how to achieve that is with decentralized protocols and infrastructure.
https://www.xgranade.com/a-progressive-case-for-the-fediverse/
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
This is why I have zero trust in Bluesky. It's proceeding exactly like every other VC-backed corporate-funded social media platform I've ever used, starting with overt good intentions, a lot of promises to users, and absolutely no technical infrastructure to help ensure that those promises are kept.
The main difference is that Bluesky could actually build a decentralized network instead of a centralized platform. To the best of my knowledge, they haven't done so yet.
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