"Truly decentralized tools push power to the ends. Users control their data and choose which intermediaries operate on it — and that arrangement is a poison pill to both enshittification and despotification." Mike Masnick ✅ (npub14j8…pjuf)'s story for Liberalism magazine is a must-read.
https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet
#Enshittification #Decentralization #Technology
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