Digital Homeownership

Well one of the first ownership is mere data:<p>- how many have personal domain name for their mails AND their messages stored at least also locally (i.e. OfflineIMAP&#x2F;<i>)?<p>- how many serve the smartphones they use but can&#x27;t really own with contacts via CardDAV to hold such valuable information on personal iron?<p>- how many sync photos&#x2F;videos if they care of them locally (no matter if via SyncThing, Immuch&#x2F;PhotoSync&#x2F;</i>?<p>- how many have their transactions ALSO on their own iron, not just on the bank servers with the bank WebUI?<p>These are the most basic form of ownership most people fails to have in the digital world while have normally in the physical world. Than the domain name, as a postal address.<p>These days ANYONE should have a personal homeserver for hes&#x2F;her own stuff, and actually essentially anyone have one (the ISP router-crappliance) only it not much powerful and they do not own it. That&#x27;s the proof of general IT ignorance, which today means mere illiteracy because &quot;computers&quot; are the modern library tools and we know how illiteracy is harmful for the individual AND the society at a whole.

If homes are the analogy we want to use, then we should remember that some places have much stronger laws to protect renters, some places have housing co-ops, and some places have government-owned or government-subsidized housing.

Beautiful illustration by The Oatmeal of how “big tech” has enshittified the internet, only missing that $3,000 of that $10,000 “promotion fee” might be for your phone manufacturer because they insist. Or maybe the $10,000 promotion costs $15,000 to pay them lol.