Independence Day @iday@mastodonten.de

whoops; there goes big social(down the drain) if this is true, then everything about fb is fake, in every detail. we are being conned till the moon turns blue.

I hope they get punished for that with bankrupcy. It is more good news for the distributed web.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/facebook-slides-after-report-claims-50-its-users-are-fake

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle

NOISE AGAINST GOOGLE &CO!

Friday 07/12 - 18:00 - Umspannwerk, #Kreuzberg, #Berlin

https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=MobilizeActions#Every_First_Friday_of_the_Month_-_18:00_-_NOISE_AGAINST_GOOGLE_-_Make_some_NOISE.21

Google &co still watching!!

While #google canceled its "campus" in #Kreuzberg, they still occupy the building, while tech-startup bullshit still hits hard on the 'hood.

Join a festive occasion of meeting with neighbors, having fun and moving towards the next steps of action! <3

#FuckOffGoogle #StartUpRevolt #ShutDownGoogle #BringTheNoise

5 years ago: Digital Feudalism and How to Avoid It

https://vimeo.com/77257232

I learned a lot in those five years and we’re still working for the same goals. Surveillance Capitalism is worse than it ever was but we also have new hopes: @Purism, Mastodon, @gnome, DAT, …

The one thing I’d change is to replace “open source” with “ethical technology” and “free (as in freedom)” in my words.

Antiterrorist Censorship: The EU Commission Wants to Kill the Decentralized Internet

Our reaction: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/new_terro_regulation

This proposal would impose new obligations to hosting service providers, including the removal in less than an hour of the reported content.

Join us now on The Federation!

Image Sharing for Everyone

A free and ethical photo sharing platform.

https://thefederation.net/

#pixelfed #mastodon #federation

Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

(submitted by pjc50)

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/

RT @itsjamesherring@twitter.com
A street artist has been improving Facebook billboards across London.

h/t @protestencil@twitter.com

Google is tracking you. Even when you're in Airplane Mode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G6mUyIgyg

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #latestagecapitalism