If feudalism is a cool network where everyone can freely choose at any time who they want to partner with, what are the „technofeudalism“ authors worried about?

Both are minimally disrupted by using multiple accounts. It’s not a marriage.

Feudalism involved swearing loyalty to a lord, usually for life. And it seems that you could not have multiple lords. Our situation is one of complete freedom, where you can leave the platforms anytime, as well as use multiple in parallel and distribute your time using them however you want. So if e.g you feel bound to the popular platforms because of followers, you can use the smaller platforms in parallel, allowing them to grow, so nothing changes other than involving a little more effort. As more people do this, the network effect equalizes. So it’s easy to do, and it solves the problem, yet it doesn’t even cross the minds of most, including of these „thinkers“. Why is that? It seems that everyone operates on the assumption that the masses don’t have free will, or are very stupid, at least.

It’s ok to use them. That’s the strategy. A good way to organize on consumption side is to start with the low-traffic platforms, consume the little content that’s available (there’s something genuinely satisfactory about being able to scroll through all the „new posts“, something that you usually can’t do on the established sites), when done move to higher traffic. And when posting just mechanically post on multiple. It’s just switching apps/tabs, which is almost as easy as navigating within a given site.

What kind of weakness prevents you from clicking through a register flow in 2 minutes and swiping between apps? The problem is apathy. Which is fixable, but articles like these that act like people are just stuck there and there’s nothing that can be possibly done, effectively prevent anything in that direction from happening.

I‘ve never liked the analogy to feudalism, because it leaves out the elephant in the room that people can open accounts on alternative platforms very easily and comfortably in about 2 minutes. It seems more productive to discuss why they don’t do it. Acting like the possibility doesn’t even exist is a part of the problem and reinforces it.

We need to popularize the account diversification approach. So people don’t have to leave the popular platforms but allow smaller ones to grow. There are renowned figures that go on and about this „feudalism“ giving long talks, writing books about it and seem not capable of spending 2 minutes opening a new account on Mastodon, Peertube etc. and posting their contents there too. It’s weird and stupid.

This is more like, I jump down from the mount Everest, and the news is I hurt myself. Which raises a bit the question of the purpose of the news.

„The EU publishes a plan“ - „oh no, Hungary blocked the plan“

„The EU publishes a plan“ - „oh no, Hungary blocked the plan“

„The EU publishes a plan“ - „oh no, Hungary blocked the plan“

What is this supposed to achieve? It just makes Hungary look important and the EU dysfunctional. In this case it also signals that „the EU wants to help, but it can’t“ which may or may not be part of the initial plan, given that outcome is already known. But it could also be a bureaucratic necessity.

Maybe it’s the title „plan in jeopardy“ which implies that the plan assumed his approval.

But why is it news, it’s completely predictable and the EU is unlikely to not assume it

Fully agree, there should be regulations, temporary at least, that require/incentivize critical companies to make a mobile Linux version of their apps, as well as strategic funding and incentives to make the platforms viable. We as citizens should contribute too, increasing pressure for this to happen, spreading the message, becoming early adopters where possible, submitting feedback, contributing to development, etc.

Time to popularize Linux phones. I read that the security model is lacking, but especially given that Android is Linux too, it shouldn’t be too difficult to catch up. The EU is also interested in tech independence, so that could be one of the sources of funding. And there are a few viable early projects, like Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish.