Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Sep 28Pluralistic: Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack) (29 Sep 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/28/works-well/
Individually, we can't do shit about it, that's true.
But that's because this was not done to us by sole individuals. They united and leveraged the efforts and smarts of thousands upon thousands of people (groups called corporations) to do this to us.
Their power came from that collective action. We can only restore the good, by also working collectively.
#Enshittification #NewGoodInternet #CollectiveAction #ClassSolidarity #AllTheSameFight
No surveillance, all the fun.
Read how to make the Internet a better place here:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
#PrivacyFirst #NewGoodInternet #LessSurveillanceMoreFun #pluralistic #InternetForAll
Could be a bit of wishful thinking, but isn't it something we should all be striving for?
"The new, good internet is an internet where we seize the means of computation. It's an internet operated by and for the people who use it."
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/#the-old-good-internet
#OldGoodInternet #NewGoodInternet #TakeThePowerBack #StopEnshittification #Enshitternet #Pluralistic #Doctorow
Today, the #Biden administration has ushered in a new era of antitrust renewal, planting the seeds of a #disenshittification movement that will tame corporate power rather than nurturing it:
https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby
In other words, we are living in the first days of a better nation.
In other words, rather than restoring the old, good internet, we should build a *#NewGoodInternet*.
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