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Welcome to LCC!
We are The Internet of People - IOP
Consider to move away from evil digital empires (like Google, FB...) and their mind farming agorithms and spywares. Found very useful guide from Tutanota that can help you discover alternatives.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail
Libre New Year!

There's an amazing number of #ActivityPub #alternatives now available or under development:

Twitter -> @Mastodon and #Pleroma

Instagram -> @pixelfed and @anfora

YouTube -> #PeerTube ( @Chocobozzz )

Soundcloud -> @funkwhale

MeetUp -> @GetTogetherComm

Medium -> #Plume ( @BaptisteGelez )

Reddit -> @prismo and Anancus ( @tuxether )

LinkedIn -> @cloutstream@mastodon.social

Google Calendar -> @calendar_social

Anything missing from the list? What else is needed?

#Federation #Fediverse
From Mastodon @switchingsocial@mastodon.at
LIBRE NEW YEAR !
Remembering Aaron Swartz. 6 years ago we lost one of the greatest of our time.
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Must Watch Documentary 2014)
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
In context of fast developing technology "we are like rabbits paralysed in the headlights of an oncoming car."

"Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free."

We are being programmed by big tech algorithms.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
“[A] global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-firs century.”

"In our time, surveillance capitalism claims private human experience for the market dynamic as a free source of raw material that is translated into behavioral data. "

Shoshana Zuboff, professor at Harvard Business School

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/1/age_of_surveillance_capitalism_we_thought