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You think you "own" a VPS?

• swiftcoder 8mo ago
  Well, you pay for it at least, and hence enter into a contract with the service provider. A free GitHub account is a come-on by Microsoft to enmesh you further in the world of hosted services - the precise thing this manifesto is complaining about
  • phendrenad2 8mo ago
    I don't think the manifesto says anything about that actually.
    • swiftcoder 8mo ago
      I'm not sure how you can read the opening paragraphs of the manifesto and come to that conclusion: > Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification > What if I do not wish to be tenant and product? > What can I do to change the equation? > Those two questions lead me to a bigger question. > What happens when ownership and control of hardware and software shifts from the domain of corporations to a world where a significant percentage are owned by individual people and cooperatives?