Post AyfPKTH7GPtwvRVfNo by purrperl@kinkycats.org
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 (DIR) Post #AybRRu4zQVt1MRfaT2 by don_atoms@hostux.social
       2025-09-26T15:48:04Z
       
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       The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that users should control their tools, not the other way around.
       
 (DIR) Post #AybRRvUu9eD5l6nnV2 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-09-26T15:59:56Z
       
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       @don_atoms s/users/people/ and you have a hearty yay from me :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AybUvvM5Y0Rxrrfr28 by don_atoms@hostux.social
       2025-09-26T16:38:59Z
       
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       @aral bettee now ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #AybVb2U1wyNFqdzgno by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-09-26T16:45:41Z
       
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       @don_atoms Aww, thank you 💕
       
 (DIR) Post #AybtMJpxXrKME3lU4O by divVerent@misskey.de
       2025-09-26T21:07:27.722Z
       
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       @don_atoms@hostux.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al Maybe I do not get it, but why?"People" is the status quo. Other "people" control what I can do with e.g. my phone.But it should be me, the user."The people" as a whole may however exert democratic control over which things should be possible to some extent.
       
 (DIR) Post #AybtMLAuZRgINKZjMm by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-09-26T21:12:35Z
       
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       @divVerent @don_atoms You’re a person.User is an othering used by Big Tech. It makes it easier for us to design systems built to extract and exploit “users”. You, know… “dumb users.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AybuAZbrB3WFcf8DhI by don_atoms@hostux.social
       2025-09-26T21:16:17Z
       
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       @divVerent @aral aral pls correct me, the way I took your comment is that we are not "users" but "people", as in humans. Which I can only agree with - so this edit feels right to me. Power to the people! (not the users 😉)
       
 (DIR) Post #AybuAafnDuGIv9ysTI by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-09-26T21:21:45Z
       
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       @don_atoms @divVerent 💕
       
 (DIR) Post #AyfPKTH7GPtwvRVfNo by purrperl@kinkycats.org
       2025-09-28T13:55:03Z
       
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       @aral @divVerent @don_atoms ...or as they are called in the trenches by Big Tech employees, "lusers". 😜 On a related note, Marshall McLuhan said that good technology gives back to people, something they thought they had lost.What we have lost is leisure, slowness, connection with nature.We have lost trust in the press, in the government, and in other societal institutions.Here's my work-in-progress to de-enshittify the Internet and break the Capitalist Chokehold:https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web