"I’m not sure yet where I personally lie on the spectrum between the fediverse view and my default of learned helplessness in the face of unrelenting capitalism, but exposure to Mastodon changed my thinking about this project. I stopped referring to the people who would fork my repository as “users” and started calling them “participants”—a term which assigns them more agency and a sense of belonging to a collective whole."
Thoughtful essay by Liza Daly about how the existence of an alternative way of being online helped inform decisions about protecting people online.
lil.law.harvard.edu