A patient guide to leaving Gmail without losing fifteen years of email
For the non-technical reader. Plain language, exact steps, no shame for the version of you that signed up in 2009.
Writings
You are the labor
Meta makes about $57 a year per user globally, $227 in the US and Canada. You are not the customer. You are not even the product. You are the labor, and the corpus, and the training data for the model coming for your job.
What we mean when we say software should belong to you
Ownership is not a feeling. It's a property of the system: the source, the keys, the data, the right to walk away.