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Really happy that @peertube reached its highest funding goal. Such an important project for the #Fediverse, adding several relevant improvements to video hosting, watching and streaming.

Especially in this age of toxic tech, like Instagram, TikTok and Youtube, designed for addiction, absorbing people's time, mind and killing concentration.

No to #toxicTech, let's mobilise more people to connect to the community networks, designed for human wellbeing, for life.

Thanks @Framasoft
#peertube

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@cyberlyra still a lot of work ahead. I'm especially concerned about the deep integration of #toxictech in the government. I'm working as scientist/professor in Mexico. Our email, cloud, conference software are provided by Microsoft (for all public institutions, as far as I know). And or president, Dr Claudia Sheinbaum, answers Donald Trump on X!

We need, like, data cleaning parties to collectively #optout and leave #toxictech As in, hangouts where friends get together and migrate off systems en masse, onto other systems. Preferably with cookies or beer or martinis or something.

Like "knitting circles" or "LAN parties" or tupperware parties ... but for data stuff.

I have long maintained that Opting Out isnt' a personal journal but one that requires community (I get dinged for this all the time and I have to insist, it is only by joining forces around #bettertech that we make change possible at all).

How to get this started? What do your crafting circles/hackathons/WoW raids get going?

Instructions for the FINAL DAY of the #Cybercleanse are now online!

How to:
-Locate alternatives
-Engage with open source projects
-Roll your own tools

Together, let's start an #optout social movement -- away from #toxictech and toward alternatives that promise us all a better future.

optoutproject.net/next-steps/

www.optoutproject.netDay Twenty-One: Look Forward - The Opt Out ProjectWow, look what you've done! You've changed your browser. You've identified where your data is, moved it to new alternatives,…

Today's #cybercleanse #optout #toxictech challenge by @cyberlyra is a tough one. About 5 years ago, I aggressively #Degoogled after being asked how I liked the restaurant. I just came back ... I tried 'e' and 'Lineage', and own a #linux #PinePhone but sadly, some banking apps require genuine #Android. Thus: For #Bike tours and #detox I use my #Nokia; a #filofax #calendar, and a mechanical #seiko watch. Now try to put an appointment in my calendar or to reach me by #WhatsApp 😉.

"We think of our devices and data traces as personal, but they link us to many, many different people. Even if you think you have nothing to hide, your traces can always be used to incriminate others, especially when there is a shift in the political environment." -- Day Twenty, Fix your Cell Phone

You can reclaim your data.
Start today.
Do it now, for all of us.

optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cl

www.optoutproject.netThe Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint - The Opt Out ProjectNew Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…

What a day today! It's a perfect day to follow the #cybercleanse and SECURE THE HELL OUT OF YOUR CELL PHONE RIGHT NOW.

Today. Before you waste another minute.

It sure beats doomscrolling today. And it's an actual action you can take to secure your personal life and protect your friends and family in the years ahead.

#optout #toxictech

optoutproject.net/secure-phone

www.optoutproject.netDay Twenty: Fix your Phone - The Opt Out ProjectYou are walking around everyday with a massive tracking device that is hemmorhaging data all over the place, in your…

Tedious but necessary: today in the #cybercleanse you will change over your "keeper" accounts to an email mask, a generated random password, and (if relevant) a masked credit card.

There's no need for that information to be sitting in everyone else's cloud or their local databanks, waiting to be stolen or hacked or sold.

It's boring but potentially soothing! Give it a try ...

#toxictech #optout

optoutproject.net/replace-acco

(Sorry, everyone's going to hate me for this one, but you'll thank me later!)

www.optoutproject.netDay Fourteen: Replace Account Info - The Opt Out ProjectToday is reserved for a very simple, but a very time-consuming task. Today you will start switching your KEEP accounts…