100% about alternatives. We can't do it as individual "ethical consumption" strategies. I started the Opt Out blog and Tech Reclaimer to work together on public and community driven or respecting alternatives to reconstruct the public sphere, pivoting from the consumer mindset. #optout #reclaimtech

Janet Vertesi, founder of the Opt Out Project | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU Techtonic’s signoff tells you to “get off Google,” and Janet Vertesi shows how it’s done. Janet founded the Opt Out Project to show people how to switch from Big Tech surveillance platforms to better,...

Thanks to @markhurst.bsky.social for having me on Techtonic.fm this week! If you missed the interview on WFMU you can catch it here. Don't miss listening to me wax poetic about alternatives to Big Tech, my zany #optout experiments, and the movement to #reclaimtech !

techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

Day Two: Better Browsing According to statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser currently enjoys over 68% marketshare, with Apple's Safari not even a close second at…

Today and this week, Install a new #browser with Tech Reclaimers! On #Chrome? Here's how to move to #Firefox. If you're on FF already, try:

Vivaldi or Opera
#DuckDuckGo
Ecosia (green browser)
Avast
Floop
Orion
Colibri
LibreWolf (de-mozilla'd FF)

www.optoutproject.net/better-brows...
#reclaimtech

Digital Resistance Tip #2: Fragment your identity @cyberlyra explains how you can fragment your identity to avoid giving a single profile to the attention and data economies.

Digital Resistance Tip #2: Fragment your Online Identity

video.infiniteloop.tv/w/d1RmHSum5i...

Take down the platform economy by refusing to put all your digital eggs in one basket.

www.optoutproject.net and www.reclaimcontrol.tech

#optout #bigtech #reclaimtech #digitalresistance

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

If you're not familiar with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's work here is a great primer. Who broke the internet and why. From capitalism to surveillance to AI and the broligarchy... it's a #TrueStory Time to fight back.
Join the resistance #optout #reclaimtech
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What to do on your (social media) vacation? Stop the Scroll I teach a class at Princeton called the Sociology of the Internet. Famously, one of the first…

#stopthescroll is coming up on Wednesday, the first of the month. What will you to interrupt your Big Tech habits? Find inspiration here:

www.optoutproject.net/stop-the-scr...

#reclaimtech #optout

Sure, the best time to get off those systems was 12 years ago. The second best time is -- right now!

So please help us help others get off Meta products too! Meta holds us captive and compacent -- we'd like to reclaim our technology, relationships, and agency!

#reclaimTech #chuckzuck

Original post on social.firesidefedi.live

Absolutely loved @cyberlyra talk on "Building A Social Movement Toward Alternatives". Addressed so many great ways to help "free" your family from being "captured" and slowly introducing folks to the #fediverse or #foss one thing at a time. You don't have to move the whole world at once […]

🧵I’m not a coder. I’m a humanities person from Japan’s "lost generation."
I studied blockchain, but I don’t want to win in this system—I want to change the ground rules.(2/6)
#Web3ForAll #DAO #ReclaimTech

On July fourth declare your independence from Social Media. Reclaim control dot tech, hashtag stop the scroll, hashtag fourth of july

You escaped the Bird Site and found community here. Who else will you help find their freedom?

#stopthescroll #reclaimtech #optout
www.reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescrol...

On July fourth, declare your independence from echo chambers. Reclaimcontrol dot tech, hashtag stop the scroll, hashtag fourth of july.

You once helped your mom get on Facebook. Maybe now is a good time to help her get off? ;)

#stopthescroll #reclaimtech #july4th

This is the kind of independence I can get behind. Take back tech #reclaimtech #stopthescroll

On July 4th, declare your independence from BIG TECH

It's not about abstinence, it's about INDEPENDENCE!
This #4thofJuly, #stopthescroll to reclaim control over our devices, data, and digital future. Cut out social media. Resist the endless scroll. Invest in alternatives.
Boost and repost so we can #reclaimtech !
reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescroll

On the Fourth of July, we #stopthescroll! Join us in a movement to resist the endless feed, the mindless habits, and choose alternatives that feed our minds and communities instead of feeding off of them. It's time to #reclaimtech !

This Independence Day, join us in declaring your digital independence. Log off and #stopthescroll for one day. Let's take one day to reset, regroup, rethink--and maybe even establish new, better habits.

What will you choose to resist on day to #stopthescroll ? And why?

#reclaimtech