Yes, I wish it would go in the other direction and we'd have more ownership of such platforms as users/creators/informal workers, at least in the decision making process, if not in the profit sharing as well. In a way, I'd argue us users of many social media platforms are both consumer and producer.

But I agree, it is his platform now. Ugh.

Spin up your own Mastodon instance and you'll have your own part of a social network that you have control over.

I'm not so excited to have a federation of digital towns trying to interact with each other. I believe in the benefit of having overarching communities with shared rules and rule-making processes.

The analog equivalent I imagine would be to have no countries and only towns where each town has control over its laws and when towns interact, they try to create treaties. I, on the other hand, would prefer we even had much stronger coordination above the nation-state level.

But perhaps I'm not grasping the rule-making process of Mastodon, just feels very independent and not sure how it handles inter-instance conflict.