@cyberlyra still a lot of work ahead. I'm especially concerned about the deep integration of #toxictech 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!
After leaving the #MetaVerse (#Facebook, #WhatsApp & Co.) and #Twitter, moving from #Android to #GrapheneOS (#degoogle), and removing #toxictech from my stocks portfolio, today I took another extreme step: I canceled #Amazon. Follower of @cyberlyra
Everyone on this train with their phones out, scrollin’ the grams, feedin’ the oligarchs.
Among the #ToxicTech 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.
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.
#ToxicTech is maybe a better term than #BigTech. More descriptive, and its not necessarily the size that makes tech companies toxic, it's the business model and abandonment of ethics.
We need, like, data cleaning parties to collectively #optout and leave #toxictech 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.
Like "knitting circles" or "LAN parties" or tupperware parties ... but for data stuff.
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 #bettertech that we make change possible at all).
How to get this started? What do your crafting circles/hackathons/WoW raids get going?
I just moved from #Medium to a #selfhosted #Fediverse #Blog @robert-winkler, using @writefreely. My first post is about #tracking -free #search engines and #web crawling. I'm hosting two search engines: #LibreY and #YaCy.
I really like the simplistic layout and the #Fediverse integration: https://writefreely.nube-gran.de/self-hosted-web-searches-with-librey-and-yacy. #toxicTech @cyberlyra
Instructions for the FINAL DAY of the #Cybercleanse are now online!
How to:
-Locate alternatives
-Engage with open source projects
-Roll your own tools
Together, let's start an #optout social movement -- away from #toxictech and toward alternatives that promise us all a better future.
Kassandra Shrugged: In which the entire tolerant, society-building population of earth says “
whevs” and departs #walledgarden #socialmedia and other #tech , depriving the technofascists of their precious data, attention and creative-class labour until they beg them to come back and be in charge. #optout #toxictech
Today's #cybercleanse #optout #toxictech challenge by @cyberlyra is a tough one. About 5 years ago, I aggressively #Degoogled after being asked how I liked the restaurant. I just came back ... I tried 'e' and 'Lineage', and own a #linux #PinePhone but sadly, some banking apps require genuine #Android. Thus: For #Bike tours and #detox I use my #Nokia; a #filofax #calendar, and a mechanical #seiko watch. Now try to put an appointment in my calendar or to reach me by #WhatsApp 
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"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
You can reclaim your data.
Start today.
Do it now, for all of us.
https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/
What a day today! It's a perfect day to follow the #cybercleanse and SECURE THE HELL OUT OF YOUR CELL PHONE RIGHT NOW.
Today. Before you waste another minute.
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.
Day 19 of #cybercleanse -- wtf is an open microphone doing in your kitchen?
On Day 18 of the #cybercleanse we repossess all our memories -- er, photos.
https://www.optoutproject.net/photos/
Time to retrieve the archive of your life from other peoples' cloud storage and do so responsibly and reliably.
So many ways to collaborate without Google Docs, so little time to try them all!
https://www.optoutproject.net/control-collaborations/
Day Seventeen of #cybercleanse -- take back your collaborative cloud storage and move your shared documents and projects elsewhere.
On Day Fifteen of the #cybercleanse , remove yourself from All The Things.
Delete, unsubscribe, and remove yourself from what isn't serving you -- and from those who are only serving themselves.
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 ...
https://www.optoutproject.net/replace-accounts/
(Sorry, everyone's going to hate me for this one, but you'll thank me later!)
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.
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.
https://www.optoutproject.net/get-social-again/
(Please share your best "replacements" in comments here! I'd love to share tips...)
