Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

"One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. It’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech."

Great post by @laura

https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

Take a moment to consider the profound impact each of us has in the fediverse.

The fact we can communicate across the world using open source technology is pretty amazing.

We also have a responsibility, as developers, to ensure platform privacy and safety are legitimate priorities and not just buzzwords used in marketing.

We can do it better than Silicon Valley if we step outside our bubbles and listen to the people. The fediverse depends on it!

RT @jeffpaul
Facebook thinks you're worth $158, why not spend LESS than that and have your own website and #OwnYourContent? http://bit.ly/2ORBaD0 #IndieWeb #AntiSocialMedia

Step away, look at alternatives that respect you as a person (https://switching.software/ is a great place to start) and learn about the issues, https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ by @shoshanazuboff@twitter.activitypub.actor is a great place to start on the latter.

RT @behind_thecode
“How did I become a good developer? The only answer is you have to build things.”

We had a chat with @SaraSoueidan, an award-winning front-end developer, author and speaker from Lebanon. https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/interview-sara-soueidan

Happy to see that @sir's https://useplaintext.email is now the top search result for "plaintext email"!

(At least on . It probably varies more on Google)

(and special shoutout to the graphic by Fosstodon's own @ohyran :) )

Did you know, you can narrow down the suggestions from the firefox address bar using the following characters :

^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
* to search for matches in your bookmarks.
+ to search for matches in pages you’ve tagged.
% to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
# to search for matches in page titles.
$ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
? to search for matches in suggestions.

This is kind of amazing.
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RT @Gurdur
An aerial view of a sheepdog as it demonstrates fluid mechanics, and it also shows a sheep is a particle, while a flock is a wave.

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1198192621203709952

@aral on freedom and the Internet, Facebook & Google, their business model & the silion valley surveillance capitalism model.
Listen to him, now with French, English & German subtitles

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0

RT @Dailybits
Small tech demo from @aral with his personal portable webserver that's in the public and is serving a public chatroom. See his blog https://ar.al/2019/11/11/small-technology-foundation-personal-web-prototype-01-a-mobile-portable-personal-web-server/ #CreativeVille2019

NEWS: Eben Moglen Delivers “FreedomBox Turns Ten” Speech

To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of #FreedomBox's birth, Eben Moglen delivered a speech. He stressed this idea: regular people can change the web through collective social action.

Details: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/nov/19/freedombox-turns-ten/

Check out this blog post by @bob titled, "FreedomBox at Ten."

Bob Mottram: "If the last decade was the birth phase I hope that the 2020s will be the time when running your own internet services, individually or in small groups, becomes quite normal."

Read his full post here: https://blog.freedombone.net/freedombox-at-ten