- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users - Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactions - These apps are used like utilities but governed as services. It is effectively impossible to exist without big tech products right now, as an individual and as a business. We need to fight for digital rights. - Communication should be as essential a utility, like water and electricity. - Centralized apps have too much power over the internet - Google was useless when Reddit went down - one clown (Musk) should not have an outsized control on the means of communication. He can't cut my water, and he shouldn't be allowed to cut my communication. - alternatives are impractical and small and as long as big tech is allowed to throw money and kill/acquire/impede smaller apps we have a problem - A democratised communication standard would eliminate the need to use specific apps like WhatsApp or Twitter for communication and information. - this will allow the web to fulfill one of its most important functions, which is, being searchable and archivable. - profit incentives do not align for big tech to make the internet we want. Small tech will make the internet we deserve.