#digitalsphere — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalsphere, aggregated by home.social.
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"For our purposes, we can simply define #digitalsovereignty as the exercise of authority or power over the #digitalsphere.
It's important to keep in mind that having #authority over a sphere doesn't mean running that sphere with an iron fist. It is typical of #democratic systems for instance that whoever has authority will use that authority to keep the system #open and to make sure that those who rely on it can act #freely."
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"…my conclusion is that non-fascists who stay on X do so for a simple reason: they have a completely faulty understanding of how #power works in the #digitalsphere…
If you understand how recommendation #algorithms work, then you understand that there is no limit to how unbalanced the amplification of certain voices and suppression of others can be. You could have 8 billion people on X and only 800 fascists, and yet the fascists would still crowd you out."
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#DigitalSovereignity needs #StructuralPower
"Who enforces digital standards such as those that come from the #IETF or the #W3C?
In a few cases, it is state power (e.g. accessibility in some jurisdictions) but that's rare. In some other cases, it's market discipline… But most of the important areas of the #digitalsphere have stopped being open, competitive markets over a decade ago so that the market no longer has a credible disciplining function to enforce #standards. What matters is who has the #structuralpower to deploy the standards they want to see and avoid those they dislike."
@robin