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Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

The Rebel Tech Alliance is a non-profit dedicated to bringing down #SurveillanceCapitalism

We explain the problem, provide extensive lists of vetted Alternatives, and show you who else is fighting this fight so we can Unite. We also have loads of Resources and Guides.

Please read through the site - it's in chronological order - and share widely. The more people leave #BigTech the less data Big Tech has, the less power they have. #Privacy is power!

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

The internet was supposed to set us free, but as Cory Doctorow reveals, it’s been hijacked by monopolies that lock us in, strip us down, and sell us back to ourselves… though the fight isn’t over yet.
"The Internet is Crack" Podcast.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/0N3q-qHVdg8
@pluralistic #monopoly #bigtech #podcast #theinternetiscrack #antitrust #tech #technology #information

We need more such saviors 🥹

#privacy #proton #bigtech

ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂

To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.

Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊

It's not one to miss!

🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance

Le nostre attività online dipendono in gran parte da servizi americani, ma siamo sicuri di voler lasciare tutti i nostri dati in mano alle #bigtech USA?

Le alternative europee esistono e spesso sono di buona qualità, ma sono poco conosciute. Vi aiuto a scoprirle! 🇪🇺

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👉 Links, die ich nur empfehlen kann:

https://switching.software/
https://grapheneos.org/
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/
https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

https://www.optoutproject.net/
https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech/
https://bigtechmussweg.de/

https://digitalcourage.de/
https://netzpolitik.org/
https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/ratgeber/

https://www.freie-messenger.de/
https://www.messenger-matrix.de/

#unplugtrump #bigtech #digitalesouveränität

Can you please share a good intro to #Funkwhale? And what about a good instance?

A friend asked for a site to share her covers (she loves singing as a hobby) but don't want to feed the #BigTech: maybe funkwhale is the right platform?

#fediverse #fedihelp #music

Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:

“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”

Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.

*smdh*

#AI #BigTech #bullshit #capitalism #Ireland

Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.

This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.

Plus much more!

Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺

https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io

#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech

,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨‍⚖️👨‍⚖️

https://tracker.hakendran.org

Here's to the crazy ones. The digital revolutionaries. The #fediverse builders. The ones who see social media differently.

They're not fond of #BigTech. And they have no respect for the #SurveillanceEconomy.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people crazy enough to think they can change social media, are the ones who do.

The Big Tech Lobby Playbook

How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally

https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/

Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.

Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.

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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial

⛈️ Não dependa do computador dos outros, algo que a #BigTech chama de "nuvem". Aprenda e use #SyncThing e #LibreOffice! Mantenha seus próprios arquivos sob seu próprio controle em software livre executado em suas máquinas.

🔗 https://mastodon.social/@craiggrannell/114930229981088755

#SaaSS #SoftwareLivre #cloud #autonomia #soberaniaDigital #privacidade

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

https://browsergate.eu

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web

Epstein-Big-Tech-Trump eugenics are already operating

"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation" ~Epstein-funded Joscha Bach

Big Tech has long discussed which of us are worth saving. The richer, the worthier.

These fascist ideas are now Trump *policy*.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/

Millions of people are already dying every year from govt inaction on climate:

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-10-2025-climate-inaction-is-claiming-millions-of-lives-every-year--warns-new-lancet-countdown-report

#USPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #Eugenics #ClimatePurge #news #racism #Trump #BigTech .

“Can a chatbot be a co-author? AI helps crack a long-stalled gluon amplitude proof”

We don't ask if spreadsheets or other programs can be co-authors.

We are allowing AI™ vendors to twist our language for their marketing campaign to get us to accept their software as people.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-chatbot-author-ai-stalled-gluon.html

#propaganda #AI #BigTech

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)

#selfhosting #GoToSocial #Mastodon #NextCloud #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Signal #YunoHost #DeGoogle #LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy

Left: NVIDIA DLSS 5.
Right: preview of DLSS 6. 🤡

#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI

"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc

#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

🎙️ Podcast Tecnopolítica: Conjuntura # 10 - A OpenAI é do mal? A Anthropic é boazinha? [ + Serpro e sua nuvem "soberana" ]

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6951694?episode=51753787815

Episódio fundamental do #podcast de @samadeu a ser compartilhado sobretudo com quem ainda não estiver ciente desses conceitos.

▶️ Áudio — 26min, MP3 26MB

Sinopse:

Gabriel de Moraes e Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira analisam os novos acordos entre #OpenAI e #Anthropic com o United States Department of Defense, discutindo o avanço da inteligência artificial no setor militar. No debate, eles também comentam a declaração do presidente do Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (#Serpro) sobre soberania digital e infraestrutura tecnológica no #Brasil. Quais são os riscos da militarização da IA? O que isso significa para a soberania tecnológica? [...]

🌐 https://tecnopolitica.blog.br/#podcast

Para assinar o podcast em qualquer agregador (como #AntennaPod): https://anchor.fm/s/f8204060/podcast/rss

#ética #NoAI #LLM #soberaniaDigital #Serpro #nuvem #BigTech #Google #AWS #Microsoft #Oracle #Palantir #CloudAct #governo #tecnopolítica #softwarePrivativo #tecnologia #computação #administraçãoPública #UFABC

Die #EuropeanTechMap von Dante Emilio Grassi zeigt EU-Alternativen zu US #BigTech, sortiert nach Kategorien, Ländern, Branchen. Fokus liegt auf Souveränität und Datenschutz. 🗺️

In SH sieht's noch eher dünn aus, dabei gibt's noch einige Unternehmen in der Community mit Fokus auf #OpenSource, KI-Sicherheit und Green IT, die fehlen.

Also hopp hopp, SH verdient mehr Pins, macht euch sichtbar.📍

✍🏼 https://europeantechmap.eu/map?lat=46.5385&lng=-7.6926&zoom=4

#DigitalHubSH #SchleswigHolstein

The UK isn’t a vassal state of America.

Yet Trump wants to punish us over a digital services tax.

This can be resolved by ditching US Big Tech from our digital infrastructure.

We should invest in open source to promote economic growth through greater innovation and a more competitive tech sector.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning

#digitalsovereignty #trump #digitalservices #tech #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #tarrif