“With Microsoft acquiring github a few days ago, distrust in large platforms and platform operators in parts of the community once again gets even worse than it has been before, following events such as Facebooks Cambridge Analytica affair. Looking around in my tech filter bubble which is pretty much dominated by people from a FLOSS, security, privacy background, there seems only one valid way of dealing with such issues once and for all: Decentralize, at all costs. Run your own software, host your own data, keep everything you need under your own control. Plain and simple. And, same as plain and simple: I don’t think that’s going to work. …”
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Proposing a GNU Social Network Manifesto?
Reading through the GNU Free Software philosophy once again, I wonder whether, right now in the current disputes surrounding Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon and the quest for a more “open” social network environment, we might need …
WeiterlesenChanging networking behaviour, two weeks later
In light of #deletefacebook, I spent the last two weeks trying to change my behaviour in working with social networks and online media to make less use of “large” established services and be more careful …
Weiterlesen#deletefacebook won’t fix anything.
Ok, here we go again… Following the Cambridge Analytics ‘incident’, almost predictably we see #deletefacebook popping up all across most of the social media channel, with several more or less familiar names out there stating …
WeiterlesenOffenheit und Alternativen im Cloud-Zeitalter?
Aus bekannten Gründen habe ich mich in den letzten Tagen wieder recht intensiv mit offenen Kommunikationskanälen, Messengern, sozialen Netzen und dergleichen beschäftigt, mich durch meine zahllosen Accounts geklickt und letztlich resigniert wieder davon abgelassen. Es …
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