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Robert Winkler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cyberlyra</span></a></span> still a lot of work ahead. I'm especially concerned about the deep integration of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> 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!</p>
Robert Winkler<p>After leaving the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MetaVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetaVerse</span></a> (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> &amp; Co.) and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>, moving from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a>), and removing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> from my stocks portfolio, today I took another extreme step: I canceled <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>. Follower of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cyberlyra</span></a></span></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>Everyone on this train with their phones out, scrollin’ the grams, feedin’ the oligarchs.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a></p>
Bob Mottram ✅<p>Among the <a href="https://epicyon.libreserver.org/tags/ToxicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span>ToxicTech</span></a> companies there used to be a very thin veneer of "making the world better", "connecting people", etc, but especially in the last few years that mask has been dropped. It's a type of public relations which they feel no longer obligated to engage in. The overton window has been pushed enough over.<br><br>As mentioned at the end of the Netscape documentary from the 1990s, the web is failing and being slowly turned into another sort of television, where you are supposed to spend your time having parasocial relationships with politicians or watching influencers pitch value propositions.</p>
Bob Mottram ✅<p><a href="https://epicyon.libreserver.org/tags/ToxicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span>ToxicTech</span></a> is maybe a better term than <a href="https://epicyon.libreserver.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span>BigTech</span></a>. More descriptive, and its not necessarily the size that makes tech companies toxic, it's the business model and abandonment of ethics.</p>
Janet Vertesi<p>We need, like, data cleaning parties to collectively <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> and leave <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> 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.</p><p>Like "knitting circles" or "LAN parties" or tupperware parties ... but for data stuff.</p><p>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 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bettertech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bettertech</span></a> that we make change possible at all).</p><p>How to get this started? What do your crafting circles/hackathons/WoW raids get going?</p>
Robert Winkler<p>I just moved from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medium</span></a> to a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writefreely.nube-gran.de/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>robert-winkler</span></a></span>, using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@writefreely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writefreely</span></a></span>. My first post is about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tracking</span></a> -free <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> engines and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> crawling. I'm hosting two search engines: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LibreY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreY</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/YaCy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YaCy</span></a>. <br>I really like the simplistic layout and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> integration: <a href="https://writefreely.nube-gran.de/self-hosted-web-searches-with-librey-and-yacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">writefreely.nube-gran.de/self-</span><span class="invisible">hosted-web-searches-with-librey-and-yacy</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/toxicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicTech</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cyberlyra</span></a></span></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>Instructions for the FINAL DAY of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybercleanse</span></a> are now online!</p><p>How to:<br>-Locate alternatives<br>-Engage with open source projects<br>-Roll your own tools</p><p>Together, let's start an <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> social movement -- away from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> and toward alternatives that promise us all a better future.</p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/next-steps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">optoutproject.net/next-steps/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sasha Akhavi<p>Kassandra Shrugged: In which the entire tolerant, society-building population of earth says “🤷🏽‍♂️whevs” and departs <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/walledgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walledgarden</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> and other <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> , depriving the technofascists of their precious data, attention and creative-class labour until they beg them to come back and be in charge. <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a></p>
Robert Winkler<p>Today's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> challenge by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cyberlyra</span></a></span> is a tough one. About 5 years ago, I aggressively <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Degoogled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Degoogled</span></a> after being asked how I liked the restaurant. I just came back ... I tried 'e' and 'Lineage', and own a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PinePhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinePhone</span></a> but sadly, some banking apps require genuine <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>. Thus: For <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bike</span></a> tours and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/detox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detox</span></a> I use my <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nokia</span></a>; a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/filofax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filofax</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/calendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calendar</span></a>, and a mechanical <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/seiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seiko</span></a> watch. Now try to put an appointment in my calendar or to reach me by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> 😉.</p>
Janet Vertesi<p>"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</p><p>You can reclaim your data.<br>Start today.<br>Do it now, for all of us.</p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cl</span><span class="invisible">eanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>What a day today! It's a perfect day to follow the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> and SECURE THE HELL OUT OF YOUR CELL PHONE RIGHT NOW.</p><p>Today. Before you waste another minute. </p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/secure-phone/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">optoutproject.net/secure-phone</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>Day 19 of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> -- wtf is an open microphone doing in your kitchen?</p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/adios-alexa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">optoutproject.net/adios-alexa/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>On Day 18 of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> we repossess all our memories -- er, photos. </p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/photos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">optoutproject.net/photos/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Time to retrieve the archive of your life from other peoples' cloud storage and do so responsibly and reliably.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>So many ways to collaborate without Google Docs, so little time to try them all!</p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/control-collaborations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">optoutproject.net/control-coll</span><span class="invisible">aborations/</span></a></p><p>Day Seventeen of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> -- take back your collaborative cloud storage and move your shared documents and projects elsewhere.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>Folks, it's Day Sixteen. Do you have a VPN yet?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/get-vpn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">optoutproject.net/get-vpn/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Janet Vertesi<p>On Day Fifteen of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cybercleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercleanse</span></a> , remove yourself from All The Things.</p><p>Delete, unsubscribe, and remove yourself from what isn't serving you -- and from those who are only serving themselves.</p><p><a href="https://www.optoutproject.net/trash-unwanted-accounts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">optoutproject.net/trash-unwant</span><span class="invisible">ed-accounts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/toxictech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxictech</span></a></p>
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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…
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Take steps to secure your shopping and online accounts!

Today we get set up for credit card masking and we practice researching companies to suss out their data practices and investment stakeholders to assess the threat of data sales.

optoutproject.net/shop-securel

www.optoutproject.netDay Thirteen: Shop Securely - The Opt Out ProjectLet's Talk Shop Today we are going to talk seriously about shopping on the Internet. Because the fact is, every…
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Step two in deleting your social media: replace the "social connections" embedded in the platform with other forms and sources of connection.

This is how you leave for good. Migrate, transfer, reclaim those relationships from Big Tech and their #toxictech platforms.

optoutproject.net/get-social-a

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(Please share your best "replacements" in comments here! I'd love to share tips...)

www.optoutproject.netDay Eleven: Get Social Again - The Opt Out ProjectTwo weeks to change the world You've started in the process of getting your stuff off social media: great! But…
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