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• Post #4160373

  RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/116992673882266783 Bonfire has evolved into an incredible toolset to build your own Connected Community Space. What long has been a promise is now showing off in three new communities: * Jacobin.de a socialist magazine where the subscribers connect backstage with the publishing team to contribute to the research and production of articles * Totnes Pulse, a UK transition town that is moving away from Facebook Groups, where its members organise events, news and v...

• Post #2068274

  Today is a special day for my mother and me, the day that she became mother. If there is anything I'd wish as a birthday present, it'd be the reduction of suffering inflicted by authoritarian leaders, ignorant politicians, selfish extreme wealthy families and their CEOs. Maybe too much to ask? In that case, I'd be happy helping just a single person in their transition away from them, towards collective digital autonomy ;-) Every day 1 person, who can help liberate thei...

• Post #1830887

  Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon) Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month. If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse #DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

• Post #1104780

  In the context of the #DigitalCoup Denmark is working towards #DigitalSovereignty. See report: therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence Interestingly, they have a Minister for Digitalisation. They start with LibreOffice, "with a full transition to open-source software by the end of the year." Motivations are (licensing) costs and political tensions, to protect data and reduce reliance on foreign tech. Of course MS can waive the upcoming licensin...

• Post #1104779

  I'm excited to see more people join the process to build up the Democratic Tech Fund. Many of us are fed up by the @DigitalCoup, and we know that there are so many communities already working on bits and pieces of the solution. We need to do this #bottomup, based on solidarity and commons economics and organising. Let's weave the tech communities with the social movements and the social and solidarity economy. Together we can do this. #opensource #freelibre #SSE #commoning #col...

• Post #1104778

  Recently the Norwegian Consumer Council Forbrukerradet published a report and a fun video about #Enshittification, the terrible process of BigTech locking in users, and then businesses while making worse and worse the service itself. This week reported by the @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration Report: https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/02/breaking-free-pathways-to-a-fair-technological-future.pd...

• Post #1104777

  Senator Bernie Sanders asking Claude about the dangers of AI. https://youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0 #AI #privacy #democracy @DigitalCoup

• Post #1104776

  "Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products." 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back https://www.blackagendareport.com/ai-african-intelligence-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back By @jaso...

• Post #1080098

  Our democracies are under attack by authoritarian tech, tech monopolies, Big Tech corporations that extract enormous amounts of value from the users, manipulate them and is "enshittified" as @pluralistic reminds us. Our answer is: Democratic Tech -but hey, you ask what's that exactly? Here's a long article tracking the origins of the term, https://freeknowledge.eu/democratic-technology-building-alternatives-to-techno-auhtoritarianism TLDR: Of the different co...

• Post #968239

  Yesterday it became public that #Bluesky has secretly got an additional 100 million US$ investment from venture capital investors. They kept it hidden for almost a year. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/ VC money generally requires a serious return on investment, so they must have plans to extract it from users, and, so it seems, from advertisers. If it wasn't clear yet, the path to #enshittification lies ahead. It is also clear...

• Post #899796

  In the context of the @DigitalCoup and #AuthoritarianTech, can we find an answer in #DemocraticTech? Something that goes beyond mere free/libre open source software, and combines #cooperativism and #commoning. Communities who govern their shared resources, and commit to shared responsibility. I wrote an article about it, tracing the intellectual origins of the term "democratic technology", connecting to various intersectional critiques of the currently dominant model of survei...

• Post #879005

  There is an awful lot of work that needs to be done, and it is at the same time amazing that so much IS being done by so many people and communities around the globe, to increase our resilience, autonomy and sovereignty moving out of the tentacles of BigTech, and their authoritarian political partners. With the #DemocraticTechFund we are setting in motion a collective process to bring together what is already there and to make the transition together. Making the transition, we are identifying u...

• Post #878056

  Here's a really insightful post by @Framasoft's Pierre-Yves Gosset about the French Government DINUM and their La Suite project. In French, translated: "The Digital Suite of the State: Criticism of Criticism." TLDR: They comment the various criticisms and are generally very positive about this state run project. https://framablog.org/2026/03/19/la-suite-numerique-de-letat-critique-des-critiques/ Really cool is their history slider of free software and the st...

• Post #777173

  I saw this guy, Johnny Ryan, recently in a European Parliament session on #democratictech together with @robin and others. Today @johnnyryan publishes a great article in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/the-eu-has-a-secret-weapon-to-counter-trumps-economic-bullying-its-time-to-use-it

• Post #758417

  This report by Laurens Hof (from the @fediversereport) about the purpose of protocols is really insightful. Good that @nlnet has provided support for this work. About AT protocol and ActivityPub, and values (not) defined in the protocol. His conclusions: "An open protocol that does not answer the governance question will still receive an answer, but it will be written by whichever actors make themselves indispensable first." https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-prot...

• Post #627822

  Just to not forget the economic extraction that we're suffering from BigTech. Only the cloud services business in Europe extracts some 264B €, as calculated in the Asterès Report. That generates an estimated 2 million jobs in the US instead of generating them in our local communities. That's one of the costs of NOT having #DigitalAutonomy and #TechnologicalSovereignty Here in English: https://www.cigref.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TECHNOLOGICAL-DEPENDENCE-ON-AMERICAN-SOFT...

• Post #596585

  Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world. These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the...

• Post #520686

  Today is #SobTec, the annual gathering in #BCN about #technologicalsovereignty since 2016. As always, gender balance is a challenge, but at least 6 of 11 sessions count with a female presenter. And as always, collected note taking is done through collaborative pads by @femprocomuns and the Teixidora.net semantic wiki https://SobTec.cat

• Post #502081

  Today the Germans celebrate #DIday again, as it is the first Sunday of the month. I love the "recipes for change" being documented here: https://di.day/de/wechselrezepte Checkout the events today and the next 1st Sundays of the month. Together towards digital autonomy, or "digital interdependence" at https://di.day