We need to talk about digital ownership

via Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io): When people say you should “own your own data,” or that the future of the web is “ownership,” what does that mean?

Molly White untangles the many contradictory things people mean when they say “digital ownership” — buying media you can’t keep, controlling your own data, owning your audience — and argues we’d be better served by naming the specific rights we actually want. A clarifying read that cuts through both platform lock-in apologetics and crypto “ownership era” hype.

We need to talk about digital ownership