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Decentralized Tools for Activists
Sources
These websites are great to compare different software solutions, and help you choosing free alternatives over proprietary.
Reasons
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