On choosing tech

I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for another is a mistake humans have made again and again throughout our history. Online, we’ve seen the Twitter-to-{Threads,Bluesky,Mastodon} exodus (I include Mastodon, even though it’s part of the larger fediverse, because it’s positioned itself as a platform more like Twitter—