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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/

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Power Dynamics of the User-Owned Data Economy

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.

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