Digital sovereignty is the radical act of reclaiming your digital autonomy from "Big Tech" empires. For those who value mutual aid over corporate masters, it means moving away from centralized platforms that harvest your data for profit and control.

It's kind of like squatting on the internet: instead of paying "rent" with your privacy on a corporate media site, you own your tools.

It involves using self-hosted servers and open-source software to ensure that your communications and ideas remain your own, protected from state surveillance and corporate censorship. It is self-governance for the digital age.

The techbros and their dystopian fever dreams are a paper tiger constructed almost entirely of everyone else's unwillingness to learn how well digital technology maps onto decentralization.

They got a decade or two head start on enclosing the internet using antiquated capitalist legal constructs that were developed for exploiting land and production, but on the scale of history that isn't much.

The foundations for digital sovereignty are baked into the internet, and accessible right now. This is a winnable fight.