Some nihilists continue to say, “But if you build the Fediverse, surveillance capitalists will just exploit it for themselves.”

Maybe, but that’s not inevitable.

And it’s only inevitable if you resign yourself to doom and gloom.

Guess what? Doom and gloom doesn’t usually win. If that were true, the Internet itself would be some mega corporation’s proprietary technology.

But it is not.

A true digital commons can win.