MarijnFeb 18
"Digital sovereignty," if taken to mean we should switch from unaccountable American companies to unaccountable European companies, is largely missing the point of the problem. In a globalized economy the two are going to be functionally indistinguishable. What we need is non-profit digital infrastructure that's not beholden to the perversions of financialization.
Show threadLIΞBΔCHFeb 18
@marijn So many people are cloud-brained by now, they have forgotten—or never learned—how to do things for themselves, and think throwing money at some cloud is always the solution. So of course they think more in terms of switching cloud than switching away from cloud services altogether.
Show threadendolexi
@liebach @marijn sure, everybody *could* do everything by themselves. It would make society a whole lot less complex, because a lot of things today wouldn't exist at all without division of labour. Computers for instance.
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Show threadMaxFeb 18
@endolexi @liebach @marijn the point was probably that there was an entire, thriving, internet before the hyperscalers existed, not necessarily that everyone should (or was) building their entire computer from twigs and wire.