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