I am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems
@glyph "Sovereignty" as a concept loses a lot of lustre when you have Brexit as an acute lesson in what that means in practice. Personal sovereignty also gives me the piss jitters because of libertarian psychos and their "sovereign citizen" rhetoric. I know it's not the same as having some form of autonomy over the tech in your life but I can't shake it.