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Upscrolled was presented as a pro-Palestine and Muslim-friendly alternative to legacy social media, especially for people tired of censorship around Palestine and other issues that the mainstream platforms aggressively police. But even here the contradiction quickly became obvious. Not only did censorship still become an issue, but the app itself remained dependent on the approval of Apple and Google for distribution. So when it was pulled out of the app store [3], the community was pushed right back into the humiliating position of making noise on the very legacy platforms they claimed to be escaping, essentially begging the app stores to restore access! That should tell us that something is seriously wrong here. If the success of your alternative still depends on permission from the owners of the dominant system, then your alternative is not sovereign in any serious sense. It is rented space. It is tolerated until it is not.