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@MattHodges My sense is that the ActivityPub protocol, the Mastodon app design, and the social culture of the Fediverse at large are all antithetical to the idea of “owning your own data” and have more of a collective or communalistic approach to data ownership—which is different than corporate ownership, but not the same thing as individuals being able to make personal-level decisions about who can do what with their data throughout the whole data lifecycle. It also doesn’t properly conceptualize how individual consent should be handled in data-fusion scenarios (i.e. when data from multiple people are mixed together, but some individuals in that mixture have different opinions from each other on who or what should happen to their data).