Your “account” isn’t you. It’s a rented identity.
One TOS change, one ban, one merger, and your access is gone.
Digital sovereignty means owning your identity instead of borrowing it.
Most of us rent our internet from a monopoly.
When they raise prices, enforce data caps, or block sites, you have no leverage.
Digital sovereignty means exploring alternatives — even if they’re small-scale.
Sovereignty online assumes the network exists.
What happens when it doesn’t? Power cuts, fibre breaks, government shutdowns — your control vanishes if you have no offline fallback.
Relying on one provider is easy — until it locks you out or folds.
Relying on five feels safe — until you’re drowning in passwords and configs.
Digital sovereignty is about balance.
Digital rights aren’t just national law.
Trade treaties you’ve never read dictate what data can cross borders and what companies must hand over.
If sovereignty means control, you need to know who else is in the chain.
You agreed to the terms once.
Then the terms changed. Overnight your “lifetime” plan has limits, your private data is training someone’s AI, or your account is locked because of a new policy.
Digital sovereignty isn’t just about where your data lives; it’s about having a way out when the contract shifts under you.
Decentralisation gets pitched like an all-or-nothing lifestyle.
Delete every account, run your own hardware, build your own mast.
Most people don’t need that. Most people can’t.
Digital sovereignty is about reducing dependencies, not pretending you have none.
Digital sovereignty isn’t just about where the server sits.
It’s about which laws follow your data.
A VPS in one country can be controlled by a company in another, subject to laws you’ve never read.
That’s jurisdictional drift — the quiet pull of multiple legal systems on the same bytes.
Everyone talks about “owning your data.”
Fewer ask what that actually means.
If someone else controls the hardware, the operating system, the platform, and the pipeline, you don’t own anything. You just rent access.
