What if Big Tech embraced the user-owned web — not to empower users, but to quietly rebuild control under the banner of openness? The last article of my mini series reveals the playbook of re-centralization and the safeguards Europe must deploy now.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/20/how-a-bigtech-could-hijack-a-decentralized-web-and-how-europe-can-prevent-it/

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What if Big Tech embraced the user-owned web — not to empower users, but to quietly rebuild control under the banner of openness? This article reveals the playbook of re-centralization and the safeguards Europe must deploy now.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/20/how-a-bigtech-could-hijack-a-decentralized-web-and-how-europe-can-prevent-it/

This document is Part 1 of the User-Owned Web series. Following the conceptual introduction (“Two Roads to the User-Owned Web”), it explores how control, value, and innovation shift when users—not platforms—own their data. Solid, ActivityPub, and similar user-owned web architectures serve as examples of this broader paradigm.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/19/power-dynamics-of-the-user-owned-data-economy/

#UserOwnedWeb #DigitalAutonomy #OpenWeb #Fediverse #SolidProject #EuropeanAlternatives #TechForEurope #TechTonicShift #EDAI

The shift toward a user-owned data economy is transforming the foundations of digital power. When users control their data instead of platforms, technology, markets, and regulation begin to realign.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/19/power-dynamics-of-the-user-owned-data-economy/

The web we know is efficient—but fragile. Power and innovation have drifted away from users and into platforms.

A new generation of open architectures - ActivityPub, Solid, and beyond - offers a way to take control back.

My latest article, “Roads to the User-Owned Web,” launches a 3-part series on how these models could reshape digital autonomy in Europe.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/16/roads-to-the-user-owned-web/

#UserOwnedWeb #DigitalAutonomy #OpenWeb #Fediverse #SolidProject #EuropeanAlternatives #EDAI #TechTonicShift

The web we know is efficient—but fragile. Power and innovation have drifted away from users and into platforms. A new generation of open architectures—ActivityPub, Solid, and beyond—offers a way to take control back.

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/10/16/roads-to-the-user-owned-web/