Wrote a column for @businesspost.bsky.social celebrating those making the internet more open and collaborative. Big platforms persuade us there’s no alternative to their dominance. That’s not true. Let me share people and ideas who inspired this column …🧵 www.businesspost.ie/tech/tech-gi... - ThreadSky

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Wrote a column for @businesspost.bsky.social celebrating those making the internet more open and collaborative. Big platforms persuade us there’s no alternative to their dominance. That’s not true. Let me share people and ideas who inspired this column …🧵

https://www.businesspost.ie/tech/tech-giants-have-made-our-current-internet-a-zoo-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/

@mariafarrell.bsky.social and Robin Berjon wrote the article which inspired my column, and I keep returning to it every time I feel my optimism flagging

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

“We need to stop waiting for saviors and start saving the internet ourselves” - love this clarion call from @mmasnick.bsky.social

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/

Then there’s this from @molly.wiki explaining why we can - and already do - have a different web waiting to be rediscovered

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/