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I have figured out that the only way I can actually move forward with the #fediverse and #digitalsovreignty in #Norway is to write about it.
That is, I am considering making a guide called "The accelerationist guide to digital sovreignty" - in #Norwegian of course, and then in #English.
I think the drip feed of changes that's been going on and that is supposedly "the best approach" is lowballing the situation. The problem is real big, and I feel like I'm the only one who takes it seriously.
The thing is that #Norwegians can't take it seriously enough and reaching out to people has been super hard.
It's been a frustrating affair and it continues to vex me. So what else can I do, but do the things all boys do in the wake of summer...
Write a damn #manifesto.
But seriously, our country is run on digital services and with digital tools. "We live in a society". It's about time we take the power back from the yankies.
@hopland there are a good bunch of us that takes this seriously. However from my point of view most just want to live comfortably and don't think much of the price of participation on the centralized sites.
"Uphill battle ahead"
Let me know if you want a second pair of eyes on your text
A lot of people take this seriously.
Organize. Find equal-minded people.
And use Norwegian-owned data centers 
@Piraya @DoomBananas unfortunately I have yet to find some. Certain people wanna "take it slow and steady", which is laudable, if you're running a business.
But the very same people are completely fine with using services around Europe to save money instead. I spent a frustrating amount of time trying to convince them, until I just lost my cool.
Now I'm going back to the drawing board, because I'm obviously bad at organizing people and won't be "compromised to death" :/
@hopland @Piraya Don't beat yourself up about it if it does not work the first few times. I've tried to recruit quite a few people here and other services, but it's a slow process and I've not had much luck. I have stopped trying to get people over and just enjoy my time here with people like you in this thread and many more 
For companies my experience is that they want to spend their time where they can reach most people 
@DoomBananas @Piraya yeah...
Its also a question of what services are available. Not everyone wants to deal with a VPS or a dedicated server, so those things get outsourced.
That's why I'm planning a generic managed hosting service with a couple of flagship platforms - including monetization features, because a lot of fediverse people are against it, but I've got a "have your cake and eat it too" strategy ^^
I just have to get in contact with some investors after the strategy is finalized.
@DoomBananas @Piraya but the problem of digital sovereignty is so much bigger.
Making a managed hosting service is one thing (which has it's caveats), but it's quite another to protect it from foreign encroachers or to have legal protections for individuals that intersect with technology.
A lot of the time the ideas that I have are more similar to Sir Tim Berners Lee pods idea, in that the power must be given to the individual. But a lot of people don't want their business hands to be tied.
@DoomBananas @Piraya so it's a lot of back and forth, a lot of compromise, a lot of status quo and "copying your way to success".
Needless to say, I'm a bit over sensitive to this issue - because I feel I've been pissing against the wind for years now, which is why I sort of want to write an "anarchist cookbook", but for digital sovereignty.
In any case, for welfare and country, for the individual AND for the collective. I believe we can have it all - if we really wanted too.
@hopland @Piraya (this is just a side comment to the monetization part of it. I have no quarrel with you or anybody else trying to get it working. Personally I'm happy paying for keeping instances like snabelen.no up and running. Should snabelen go down; I'm spinning up my own. My goal is to have a space free of "suits", for humans. Without ever chasing so-called growth. From my PoV services tend to start sucking when "profit" enters the scope, and that's why I'm here)
@DoomBananas @Piraya yeah, I agree. But the monetization is not necessarily for the platform holder. It's for content creators.
People on the fediverse can be fairly arrogant and believe that monetization only needs to happen directly, when the general subscriber does not necessarily adhere to a 3rd party platform - like Patreon.
The subs, the super chats, a lot of content creators make their living on that. Therefore they won't leave the big platforms, because that's where they get their rent
@DoomBananas @Piraya you want to save them, or give them the tools to save themselves. But in a world with an attention economy as it is, it's a good idea to empower content creators by giving them the tools to monetize in a way that is easy for users.
We do live in a "second screen" era and ignoring that is a problem, because it means we leave many people in the hands of proprietary platforms that do not, I repeat, do NOT give af about the content creator.
YouTube, Twitch, take your pick.