We need a New Digital Deal.

(Not a New Deal for the world, well maybe that, too, but a New Deal between users and technology providers that isn't so lopsided as the current one.)

That was a phrase often used by Nick Givotovsky, who I had to think of this week. It's now 14 years he died, in a terrible accident. We are arguably subject to a worse digital deal today than when he died, except in places such as here in the Fediverse.

Read this quote in the NYTimes:

archive.nytimes.com/www.nytime