# Decentralized Tools for Activists

Why?

- 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
- how to find an instance?

## 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