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Stefano Marinelli

One of the things I've been advocating for years - and where I want to raise my voice even louder - is the importance of owning your data. #OwnYourData

Over the past few days, I’ve come across two examples of how misinformation is causing immense damage, leading people to believe that there's no alternative but to hand over their data to big corporations, putting themselves entirely in their hands.

- A well-known lawyer, just before a meeting, warned about using Teams and its new "virtual assistant," which joins conferences before anyone else and transcribes everything. When I pointed out that it would be wise to use alternative tools (like Jitsi, for example, but there are others), he abruptly ended the conversation, saying, "We've lost this war. There's no alternative anymore."
That wasn’t the right moment for a detailed discussion, so I just noted that alternatives do exist - but if no one starts using them, and if we passively accept certain behaviors from certain companies, things will never improve for us.

- Just now, I received another one of those emails that hurt more in the heart than in the wallet: "Our e-commerce is taking off, so we’re moving it to Shopify to better manage our growth."
I replied, trying to explain that handing over a growing e-commerce business to a third-party company (right now, they have full access to their own server - meaning all their databases, data, etc., are under their control) means losing ownership of it. Prices could change at any moment, contract terms could shift negatively, and, worst case scenario, if Shopify itself faced issues (which seems impossible today, but think of giants like Kodak), they could lose everything. Of course, they’ll do what they think is best, but I feel obligated to warn them.

Luckily, others are making the opposite choice. But I keep wondering: since these big platforms aren’t exactly cheap, rather than "selling themselves" to them just for (potentially) fewer headaches, wouldn’t it be worth paying someone (not me, of course, but someone working exclusively for them) to handle these things - ensuring they retain full ownership of their business and their data?

#DataOwnership#Decentralization#BigTech
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Aral Balkan

Tech bros are living, breathing embodiments of the false authority facility; claiming that their professed understanding of basic logic qualifies them to reason expertly upon every conceivable topic while conveniently ignoring a fundamental maxim of their purported core area of expertise: garbage in, garbage out.

#techBros#technofascism#BigTech
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Ellie Wondering

Hi, I’m Ellie.

I’ve jumped to Mastodon after realising (again) how toxic big tech is. Trump and Musk’s obsession with controlling social media sealed it—I miss when it was about connecting, not just a tool for the rich to twist public opinion.

I’ll post a little bit about politics (Carol Cadwalladr fan!) but also pretty pictures, my pet, and travel snaps. Looking forward to actual conversations—not just whatever the algorithm wants me to see.

#Introduction#Mastodon#BigTech
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stovis

Choose wisely!

#BigTech - the data vampires that harvests as much data about you as possible, with their opaque platform silos, black boxes, targeted advertisements, dark patterns and attention seeking algorithms?

Or #PostmarketOS - free, open source, driven by a community of enthusiasts who share a common goal: to promote a healthier and more sustainable society. And have some fun while doing it!

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

To all of you that are joining us at @Vivaldi , I would like to welcome you.

We know that many are looking for options away from Big Tech and we are happy many of you are choosing us.

We have been building browsers for a long time now. Many of us were at Opera. I co-founded Opera in 1995.

As Opera drifted in a bad direction, I co-founded Vivaldi to provide a real alternative to Big Tech and I believe we can play a very important role moving forward. Thanks for your support!

#Vivaldi#BigTech#browser
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@xankarn

#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup

(3/n)

... sensitive and accurate data there is on all #Americans, illegally raiding one federal agency's data base after another. 1)

1) E. g. today:
mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114116

His #BigTech peers, #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft, et al. have been trafficking with all that contact and movement (etc.!) data on your smartphone.

And now, there is even #AI that can process all that data!

"'a key benefit for the...

Mastodon 🐘Laffy (@GottaLaff@mstdn.social)WaPo: Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have sought access to a powerful database of nearly all U.S. workers’ earnings kept by the health department’s child support office, setting off another disagreement with career staff over demands for legally protected records.
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Oliver Knabe

For all who would like to exit from #Bigtech I would recommend once more the encouraging #optout-project developed by Janet Vertesi:

"Yes, you can live without Big Tech.
If data is the new oil, then I'm here to help you go electric. Join the resistance", says @cyberlyra optoutproject.net/welcome-to-t

www.optoutproject.netWelcome to the Opt Out Project - The Opt Out ProjectWelcome, fellow and aspiring conscientious objectors! Yes, you can live a modern, digitally connected, twenty-first century life online without Big…
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Jon S. von Tetzchner

So Microsoft introduced Recall some time ago. Seemingly most people have never heard of it. It takes a picture of your screen every 5s, so you are able to search for what you did on your computer. Personally I can not think of many uses for this functionality and none that outweigh the privacy and security implications.

Would you care to enable such functionality on your computer?

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