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Tim Chambers
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Proton Mail launches “Newsletters” view — a built-in tool to manage email subscriptions without giving up privacy. 📬
No third-party access, no tracking, no ads. Just a cleaner inbox, on your terms. A welcome upgrade from one of the most privacy-respecting email providers. 🔒✉️
https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-newsletters
#Privacy#Security#CyberSecurity#Proton#ProtonMail#Email#EmailSecurity#DigitalPrivacy#BigTech#DataProtection#TechForGood#Tech#TechNews
As the global race for AI domination heats up, Republican lawmakers are working to block state-level legislation while the Trump administration pressures foreign regulators to go easier on U.S. tech giants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/25/world/washington-effect-decides-ai-race/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #eu #china #ai #bigtech
Cory Doctorow
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A world free of Big Tech. Can you imagine? 💭
Join us for a special event for the 20th anniversary of Open Rights Group 🎂
As well as being a renowned author, activist and journalist, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic was a founding member of ORG! He'll be talking to fellow writer and activist Maria Farrell about #SurveillanceCapitalism, the #enshittification of digital platforms and fighting #BigTech monopolies.
🗓️ 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
Sign up ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
If you value your freedom remember that YOU can control how you compute.
Do not comply.
"Dystopian worlds don't just pop into existence: they are built by the choices of those with substantial power, taking freedom from others. Free software has unlimited power for making our world actually better for people (not Big Tech), but we need to join together and ensure that freedom can thrive."
#FSF #Libre #GNU #Linux #Apple #Microsoft #Google #Resist #BigTech #Endof10
https://www.fsf.org/appeal/2025-spring/free-software-can-defy-dystopia
Tim Chambers
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Break free from Big Tech's behavioral tracking and data selling.
Vivaldi respects your privacy: no profiling, no selling your browsing data, just browsing on your terms. ✅
Ditching Edge is easier than ever. One simple click, and your browser data has been moved over.
Video shows a user on Windows 11 navigating to Vivaldi.com to download the latest version of the Vivaldi web browser. The user installs the browser, imports browser data with a simple click, and voilà: ready to go!
Who's snitching on us here?
｢ In a separate Q&A, Cottle noted that Threads now interacts with 75 percent of servers on the Fediverse — "sending posts, likes, and replies back and forth over the Internet in a decentralized way." ｣
https://www.platformer.news/threads-fediverse-feed-bluesky-mastodon/
💰 Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc7sVrGKyU
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/
Fireside Fedi
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The #Fediverse is amazing, less than 24 hours after I posted this and @peertube is only €223 from the penultimate target with 30 hours to go.
Not taking any credit for that, but happy to see a chord has been struck for all genuine surveillance-capital-free social media. Even more important in the time of #NoKings.
Looks like I'm going to be busy making #Science videos on #ClimateChange in the #Polar Regions too for the next few weeks.
Here's one I made earlier on #SurfaceMass Budget. Let me know if there's something #Climate and/or #ice related you'd like to see a short clip about and I'll see what we can do
https://tilvids.com/w/fnEhyZfXViE7Nv6vs1JzsU
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114681872940827595
Ruth_Mottram - One last push:
The @peertube app campaign is just €7000 away from it's €55,000 target, and 2 days to go. Surely there are #fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114641673922538397
Ruth_Mottram - Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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One last push:
The peertube app campaign is just €7000 away from it's €55,000 target, and 2 days to go. Surely there are #fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114641673922538397
Ruth_Mottram - Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
sef
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Strypey
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@strypey My nonprofit, the Rebel Tech Alliance, want to encourage a mass walkout from #bigtech platforms by the end of 2025.
If that walkout is to be towards the fediverse, which I hope it is, I worry about the inability of people to host their own servers.
Are there any efforts to make this into a simple process that even a normie could achieve?
Ulrike Hahn
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Looking forward to seeing @bjoernsta @_elena @andypiper @babetteknauer @wendyhk @lavaeolus @aikvaneemeren @RonaldHuizer @bert_hubert @manfredzielinski @tsongloong @wlaatje @Jurjenvdb @cubicgarden and many more including you at the @publicspaces conference in Amsterdam tomorrow!
For more info:
https://conference.publicspaces.net/
See you all tomorrow!
#PubConf2025#PubConf#NL#Fediverse#OpenSource#Tech#TechPolicy#DigitalSovereignty#BigTech#PublicValues
