And it's done! #WhatsApp account deleted and the app uninstalled 🥳
I promised I would do it by the end of 2025, and I'm a man of my word. I've been prepping friends and family for 6 months.

2026 will be 100% #Meta free for me!!! woo-hoo!

You can do the same, just follow the steps of the #BigTechWalkout2025 at https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

While the #Internet becomes more and more a sh*thole instead of serving everyone as a source of information (as it was once intended to do), I want to thank all you people on #Mastodon here for making the #Fediverse community a place of hope in the vast area of bullsh*t. Many of you with similar interests stand out most of the discussions here are on eye level.

Many things found here are social standards that seem to have disappeared in #BigTech-focused networks and considering this, ... 1/2

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 - Happy New Year! 🥳

2025 is history. 1984 is here!

There's never been a better time to degoogle your life!

In January, I'll be releasing content on switching email providers. Stay tuned...

#degoogle #bigtech #privacy #digitalsovereignty #gmail #email #newyear

And it's done! #WhatsApp account deleted and the app uninstalled 🥳
I promised I would do it by the end of 2025, and I'm a man of my word. I've been prepping friends and family for 6 months.

2026 will be 100% #Meta free for me!!! woo-hoo!

You can do the same, just follow the steps of the #BigTechWalkout2025 at https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

While the #Internet becomes more and more a sh*thole instead of serving everyone as a source of information (as it was once intended to do), I want to thank all you people on #Mastodon here for making the #Fediverse community a place of hope in the vast area of bullsh*t. Many of you with similar interests stand out most of the discussions here are on eye level.

Many things found here are social standards that seem to have disappeared in #BigTech-focused networks and considering this, ... 1/2

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 - Happy New Year! 🥳

2025 is history. 1984 is here!

There's never been a better time to degoogle your life!

In January, I'll be releasing content on switching email providers. Stay tuned...

#degoogle #bigtech #privacy #digitalsovereignty #gmail #email #newyear

Falls ihr "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" von Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic) noch nicht angeschaut (oder gehört) habt dann empfehle ich dies baldmöglichst nachzuholen.

Der Vortrag wurde auf dem #39C3 gehalten und Zeit einen Weg auf wie die Abhängigkeit von #BigTech gebrochen werden kann und was es auf regulatorischer Ebene dafür bedarf.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Falls ihr "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" von Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic) noch nicht angeschaut (oder gehört) habt dann empfehle ich dies baldmöglichst nachzuholen.

Der Vortrag wurde auf dem #39C3 gehalten und Zeit einen Weg auf wie die Abhängigkeit von #BigTech gebrochen werden kann und was es auf regulatorischer Ebene dafür bedarf.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

💰 AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025 // The Guardian

｢ The top 10 US founders and bosses of some of the world’s largest technology companies saw their finances swell to nearly $2.5tn, up from $1.9tn, in the year to Christmas Eve, according to figures from Bloomberg ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/26/ai-boom-adds-more-than-half-a-trillion-dollars-to-wealth-of-us-tech-barons-in-2025

#bigtech #antitrust #ai

Zeer lezenswaardige blog:

"Is een digitale ID-check bij de bank verplicht?"

https://www.johannakoopman.nl/id-check-bank/

Over #id-verfificatie bij #ASNBank.

#privacy #ASN #AppDwang #identificatie #bank #banken #bigtech

Ab jetzt ist jeder 1. Sonntag #DigitalIndependenceDay und soll damit mehr User:innen helfen den Ausstieg aus #BigTech hinzubekommen!

Alle Infos zur Kampagne findet ihr hier 👉 https://di.day

Gerne boosten, liken, in Emailfooter packen und was auch immer sonst noch hilft, anderen zu helfen.

Danke 🙏

An interview I gave to Euronews six years ago. Interview is in English with Turkish subtitles.

You decide how it has aged.

https://tr.euronews.com/2019/03/08/teknoloji-sirketleri-insan-varligini-tehdit-ediyor-dijital-haklar-aktivisti-aral-balkan

#BigTech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #fascism #SmallTech #tech #HumanRights #democracy #peerocracy

A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.

#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

Good morning to everyone who searches the web without feeding the monopoly ☺️

#BigTech #Google #SearchEngine #Tech

A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.

#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

Spotify supports ICE and the IDF. Cancel your Spotify account! #spotify #music #pirateyourmusic #bigtech #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor

“In 2026 will Americans🚨finally turn against #Oligarchs? Americans are noticing #PrivateEquity roll-ups in everything from youth sports to fire trucks to #BigTech. Is a genuine anti-monopoly revolt finally brewing?”

“So excited that K Van Dyck’s Cong testimony on the harmful effects of PE roll-ups in youth sports has gone viral.⚡️The impact of her test +the anti-oligarchy zeitgeist it unleashed—masterfully highlighted in MS’s⬇️”
-M Singer
#Kleptocracy #Uprising #USPol
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-optimism-in-the-next