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A New Movement to Free Social Media From Oligarchs
The Free Our Feeds campaign, launched by a group of tech entrepreneurs, aims to put digital platforms back in the hands of users.
Amid this widespread disillusion with billionaire-controlled social networks, a group of tech entrepreneurs has launched a campaign to establish a new ecosystem that can’t be controlled by any singular person or company and puts power — and data ownership — back into the hands of users. Josh Kramer, head of Editorial at the nonprofit research and development lab New_ Public, told Hyperallergic that Bluesky’s underlying technology presents a new opportunity to build a new social media landscape “unlike we’ve ever seen before.” While acknowledging that the Free Our Feeds initiative is not a completely foolproof plan, Kramer maintained that it would be “a significant step forward and worthwhile experiment that possibly could be leveraged to create like a whole new way of doing things.”
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