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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…
Almost every proposed solution I’ve seen to the “techlash” has been to effectively give the very same tech companies more power, but along with a demand that they somehow wave a magic wand and “fix” the big problems (which often represent larger societal issues). This is why I originally wrote my “Protocols Not Platforms” paper, as an attempt to remind people that the whole point of the internet was to put the power back in the hands of users over the large entities. They don’t like a particular company decision, which is an understandable position to take, but rather than making use of the affordances of the system to help deal with that problem, they demand that some centralized authority must come in and fix it for them.
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