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# Decentralized Tools for Activists
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Why?
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- we want more people to use decentralized tools for political action
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- it makes their activism more effective
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- decentralized services are more resilient, don't support the power, and are important for privacy
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- decentralized services require some extra knowledge
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What?
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- make people aware of the problem
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- teach people how to use the alternatives (effectively)
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- it would be great if they can spread the knowledge afterwards
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How?
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- a workshop on how to use them
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- directly trying them out?
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- stories on why this is important
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## The Problem: Monopolies
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Tech monopolies gain more and more power
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- their means of production are user data
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- knowledge is power:
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- manipulating elections
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- mass surveillance
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- influencing customers
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- repression
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- and we don't know how they can use the data in the future
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- most of these services are monopolys; this way they can exploit the data
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- network effects: the more users they have, the more they want
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- argument: we provide the services for free, users come to us voluntarily
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stories?
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## Decentralized
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- But there are alternatives
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- Decentralized services
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- not owned by a single company
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- everyone can set up their own server
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- interoperable; the servers can federate with each other
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- Also important: Free Software/Open Source
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- everyone is able to use, read, edit, share the source code -> trustworthy
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## Alternatives
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### framadate
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### jitsi
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### mastodon
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### mobilizon
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### cryptpad
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### wordpress
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### discourse
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### crabgrass
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### ownCloud
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### kanboard
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