Tech Doesn’t Have to Exploit You

Big Tech extracts. Small tech serves.

In this week’s episode, Aral Balkan explores how corporations captured the internet, turned us into products, and why reclaiming digital rights matters.

🎧 youtu.be/wUuJ9eE86lI

#DigitalRights #Privacy #Decentralize

The Internet Wasn’t Broken. It Was Captured.

🎧 This week’s episode → youtu.be/wUuJ9eE86lI

#DigitalRights #Decentralize #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

The quote warns of universal human fallibility, urging us to build resilient, decentralized systems that prevent corruption and foster trust, not rely on a few. #Resilience #Decentralize #Trust

Social Media Giants:

Your data feeds their markets.

Your content feeds their algorithms.

Your attention feeds their advertisers.

That's why I'm on BlueSky!

#TechnoFeudalism #TechFeudalism #SocialMedia #CloudCapital #DigitalSovereignty #TechLords #DigitalFiefdom #BigTech #Decentralize #Divest

Gdyby każdy użytkownik #Bitcoin miał w domu małego Bitaxe Gamma. To przy ok. 100 mln ludzi to 120 EH/s czyli 17% całej mocy sieci w rękach zwykłych ludzi🙊 Mokry sen... 🥹
#Decentralize #Bitaxe

Empower communities, decentralize control, and let individuals lead. Trust fosters success when bureaucracy recedes. #SelfGovernance #CommunityPower #Decentralize #TrustBuilds

I finally finished properly labeling my mp3s and loading them onto my iPod it took weeks. Going to be setting up dumb phone this weekend. Interested to see how I manage without my smartphone at all times? #dumbphone #decentralize

Interested in setting up an #ATProto account on an instance that's not #Bluesky but can't find any. Do open ATProto instances exist? Is @surf running its own instance on the #ATmosphere?

#decentralize

This is a VIOLATION ❌ of Michigan’s #Dignity ✅🫡‼️😱

A state in OUR GREAT UNION 🇺🇸🦅🗽💯 that has so much #Aura ✨ AND #GRIT 😤 they had to #Decentralize ❌🎯 it into TWO 2️⃣ peninsulas‼️🤩

#GRITichigan 😤
#AllGRIT 💯🅿️😤
#GRITInTheMitten 😤
#WaterWinterDignityland 💦❄️✅🫡

39 hours to go for @bonfire 's crowdfunding campaign.

Help build decentralized communitites. Back it!

#fediverse #decentralize

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

#Decentralize the shit out of #culture & #history, #crafts, #food & #traditions,
and keep them #slow & #skills & #community based,
organized & centered around #workers #co-ops & #democracy & #locality.

#Cooperatives #Coop
#WorkerOwned

Why do I have no HTTP 500 on this website?

ooooh right

#decentralize #the #internet #cloudflare

Members Tether may lead $1.2 billion round in German Robotics startup: FT Tether is mulling a $1.16 billion funding round in the German tech startup Neura Robotics as the issuer of the world's largest stable...

Tether may lead $1.2 billion round in German Robotics startup: FT

animalverse.social/community/p/...

#Tether #USDT #StartUp #Stablecoin #Decentralize #SocialFi #Animalverse

Whole Earth Index Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between ...

Oh this is *beautiful*. Browsing the Whole Earth Catalog as a young man basically changed my DNA.

wholeearth.info

#books #decentralize #tech #tools

When the Mind Breaks, the Truth Has to Decentralize - Bitcoin Revolution When centralized systems fail, both individuals and civilizations are forced to evolve. This essay explores how truth itself must decentralize—from the church’s monopoly on knowledge to the bank’s monopoly on money. Just as the printing press freed information, Bitcoin frees value. Through personal reflection and historical context, it shows how decentralization is not just technological progress, but a psychological and spiritual shift toward verification over belief.

When the mind breaks, belief isn’t enough—truth has to decentralize. Gutenberg freed knowledge. Bitcoin frees money. Both replaced faith with proof.

Read more: bitcoinrevolution.blog/when-the-min...

#Bitcoin #Decentralize #Truth #Freedom

Take notes on this: centralizing is great for your LEGO creations, not for YOUR data and YOUR service.

#Decentralize, find reliable providers, find trusted services.

#useast1 lessons learned: #Decentralize!

😷🏴In the hacker circle, it is known who is boycotting #AWS, Amazon is shit and should fall at some point in the future, this is the reason why in the meantime many developers are working hard to #decentralize information and not depend on mega server providers.

Original post on mastodon.com.pl

Powiadam wam: DECENTRALIZACJA!

Internet został stworzony jako odporny na wojnę atomową. Wszystkie węzły, które przeżyły atak, wymieniają dane nadal i działają. Jest wiele tras z A do B.

A potem przyszedł #GAFAM i wszystko scentralizował. I jak coś w GAFAM padnie, to nie macie INTERNETU!

Nie […]

Jeff Bezos

🇺🇸 I jak się pracuje wielbicielom wygodnych szpiegujących amerykańskich apek jak im scentralizowany internet od #AWS padł?🤔

Bo nam "piwniczakom" na własnych serwerach wszystko działa 👍

Btw, to ZAWSZE jest czyjś serwer 😉

#DIY #Decentralize #GAFAM

The meme "old man yells at cloud" but instead of Abe, it's me

This morning, this is extremely appropriate

#AWS #AWSDown #AWSOutage #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #Decentralize

Matrix.org Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

This may also be a good day to recall that https://matrix.org is alive and well.

#decentralize #awsdown

Original post on burningboard.net

20+ years of self-hosted email. Windows-free since 2007 and only using Linux and BSD based computers.

Here's my big tech exit so far:

X -> Mastodon
Reddit -> Lemmy
WhatsApp/iMessage -> Matrix & Threema
Google Drive -> Nextcloud
iCloud Photos -> Immich
Netflix -> Jellyfin & optical media […]

Ultimately, users must be aware of Reddit's inherent biases and limitations. Seeking alternative information sources and advocating for open protocols could empower communities beyond centralized control. Stay critical! #Decentralize 6/6

AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to Expect Next: An Astrologer's Take (Part 1 of 4)

So many ??? about where we’re heading but perhaps we know more than we realize…
#ai #bigdata #openaccess #libraries #internetarchive #openlibrary #decentralize
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