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A guide to leaving social media.

As with all of these things, there’s a cohort of people for whom modern social media (“Web 2.0”) is what they want out of the internet. For whatever reason, these people are no more likely to pull up sticks and join the indieweb now than they were to roll a blog or run a personal collective back in the early 2000s (or a newsgroup or BBS before that). They’re also the people most likely to get annoyed by any attempt to get them to do so. This class of people also includes most anyone with an Extremely Online career — influencers, journalists, “creators” and so on — which I think is why fedi and the indieweb tend to get such a beating in “mainstream” outlets (with “mainstream” being defined here in the modern sense of “anyone with, or trying to create, a monetisable broadcast channel”).

So. This is not for them. Is is for anyone, however, who enjoys Doing Things Online as a hobby, not a career (potential or actual). For anyone who wants the small scale, the friction, the jank, the weirdness. Who wants to sit in front of text editors and command lines. Wants to do things the old way, the slow way. Wants to wrangle and learn technologies and protocols and processes older than they are, older than their parents are, maybe.

These people have always existed, will always exist; the punks and the weirdos and the outsiders. The internet used to be theirs near entire, and while that hasn’t been true for a lifetime now, there’s still plenty of us around, lurking in our neon-dark and pastel-bright corners. And still plenty of space for anyone new who wants to join in.

unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.comHome | UnplatformThe definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)

"#Germany’s #Habeck slams ‘#tech #oligarch#Musk, calls for a #European #X" / #Twitter

I'm trying to think of a #socialmedia, founded in Germany, with a strong commitment to #privacy and #rights and already in full compliance with #German law

I think it was founded in 2016, by a computer science student at the University of #Jena... named Eubert? Imogen?

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The mascot is a hairy elephant I think?

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I can't seem to recall

Do you know it, Habeck?

politico.eu/article/germanys-h

POLITICO · Germany’s Habeck slams ‘tech oligarch’ Musk, calls for a European XBy Chris Lunday

I hear Codecademy is doing a thing. Let's check out the #accessibility of said thing. in half an hour, I will hop on #twitch and #youtube in order to give their so-called Öperation Codebreaker" a look from a #screenReader perspective. We'll be talking #WCAG, #blindness, #accessible interface design, the works.
See you then over at:

- twitch.tv/IC_Null
- youtube.com/@blindlyCoding
- I'm sure there's a tiktok stream as well but don't go there :P #selfPromo #stream #coding #tech #a11y

TwitchIC_null - TwitchFully blind person hacking, coding and tinkering while using a screen reader. THM, HTB, accessibility, all the things.

Niccolò Ve is a KDE developer and Linux enthusiast who creates videos about FOSS, Linux, computing and the internet. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @veggero

There are already over 380 videos uploaded. If they haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at tube.kockatoo.org/a/veggero/vi

Kockatoo TubeveggeroA PeerTube instance for the KDE Community, and like-minded folk and projects -- but you can upload non-KDE related stuff!

Hey #tech folks of the fediverse. I'm trying to remove more of my data from big tech. What is an easy and affordable way to set up a private backup/server/cloud.

Goal: Back up docs, photos, design files etc, so I can reduce use of Google Drive and Apple Cloud. Have the data accessible remotely and securely. Automatic backup. Maybe help with some of the safeguarding research stuff via bit torrent. Not a gamer. Don't care about streaming videos.

Tech level: I'm a ui person. The extent of my backend skill is that I can set up a wordpress site on hosting. I do not know hardware, servers, or linux. I have to lookup every command I've ever put in a command line. Aka I can learn and configure stuff, but I'm not this sort of techy.

Supplies: I don't have any extra computers or hard drives laying around.

This would be ideal if it didn't have bad reviews. Wouldn't mind more storage: amazon.com/SSK-Portable-Extern

www.amazon.comAmazon.com: SSK 2TB Portable NAS External Wireless Hard Drive with Own Wi-Fi Hotspot, Personal Cloud Smart Storage Support Auto-Backup, Phone/Tablet PC/Laptop Wireless Remote Access : ElectronicsBuy SSK 2TB Portable NAS External Wireless Hard Drive with Own Wi-Fi Hotspot, Personal Cloud Smart Storage Support Auto-Backup, Phone/Tablet PC/Laptop Wireless Remote Access: External Hard Drives - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases