Speaking as a director of the Veilid Foundation, I see no difference in the data construct you build when using the internet, and your physical or creative being. Those works are a part of you as much as your right hand is. I simply believe that it is morally reprehensible that we can give that up by signing a EULA.

We are entering a very dangerous era of the internet. The data silos are in fact datavores, and they have to continue to devour data wherever they can find it.

They have come to the fediverse, and now they are here to eat YOU. Your data construct/profile/ whatever you want to think of it as.

It is now more imperative than ever that projects like Veilid and Spritely, projects that restore the future we were promised through privacy tooling, become utilized and fully leveraged. Tools like these are armored with encryption and are resilient to the teeth of the datavore.

Your data is not theirs to own.

These friendships you have made.

These bonds.

They are how we’ll do this.

They are how we will win.

We used to own the void.

Yet we persist.

We gather.

You will have no power here.

Because you’ll end up Either by our sides, or swept aside.

Join the future.

Reclaim the void.

Be mighty, together.

Once there was a promising young technomancer who abandoned all of his principles and collected everyone's data. He told them it was safe with him, and in time they believed him.

Over time the technomancer realized he had amassed so much information that he became mightier than even the leaders of the world, but his greed and desire for wealth kept him from noticing.

He began to sell his influence to these leaders and got them hooked on his data.

They used it solve crimes, and they used it protect the endangered, and they used it to detect who would likely do crime, and they used it to keep the people divided, and they used it to topple one another's nations.

All the while making the no longer young technomancer even more powerful and wealthy.

The prophecy says that the Technomancer will try to destroy those who oppose him. But the agents of the wires will bring him to his knees by rebuilding what was lost.

Understand my words with full knowledge and reverence for my connection to the void.

My data is not yours to own.

You came here and asked to sell us things, then tracked us with the things you sold us.

You came here and begged for trust, which many gave you, then betrayed it by selling our secrets.

Then you took away our nation.

My data is not yours to own.