today I learned an important new word

No, it means that the users should own the services, which is what the F in FOSS means

Incidentally, I wrote a detailed article on the subject a while back https://justiceinternationale.com/articles/2020-12-02-we-must-own-our-tools/

I miss lemmy.ml before the reddit API changes. Not nearly as many bootlickers.

Communism works nice in theory, and in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. But we e can definity re-shitproof internet based services.