Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)

Mike Masnick / Liberalism.org : Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals — In January 2011, somewhere in the crush of bodies in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a man held up a handwritten sign.

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