Imagine waking up one day to find that your online community has vanished. Your digital presence, painstakingly built over years, has been erased in an instant. 

This is not a dystopian future, but a reality many have faced in the current landscape of online platforms. It’s a reality I faced, when my previous company, Meerkat, was removed from Twitter’s API and cut off from its social graph. I remember asking Twitter if we had a week or so to prepare after we got the news. Instead, two hours later, we were kicked off the platform. 

We deserve better. To avoid more cases like this, communities should be run and owned from within, by the people.

Do you prefer to rent or own? 

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