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This:

Massive centralized platforms create problems for society. By posting to your own site, you control your content, distributing it more evenly across the web and minimizing the power of big tech companies.

and

Temporary, viral movements like #DeleteFacebook are not enough. We need something sustainable that permanently changes the narrative.

Both from Manton Reece’s excellent Indie Microblogging.

Our high-schools should have a whole class built around this book. It would teach kids how to take action, how to not be powerless. From understanding ownership of content to understanding the way the Internet runs on open standards. It’s all in here.

I’ve never pre-ordered a book so quickly.

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