Many are switching away from Big Tech right now. There are many reasons to do so. Have you? I understand that switching out everything in one go may not be feasible for everyone, but you can always take smaller steps. #BigTech #Technology #Linux #Mastodon #fediverse #Politics

Ready to move away from Big Tech? There are options. Choosing those options will require you to learn something new, but that is a small cost to pay to get away from Big Tech, IMHO Here are my suggestions. Feel free to add your own: 1. Browser : Vivaldi. That one is a given for me, obviously. 2. Mail client : Vivaldi. You may wonder why you need a mail client, but besides the technical benefits, it makes it a lot easier to move between mail services or even use more than one. 3. Mail service : Fastmail. They have been around for a long time. 4. Office software : Libre Office. 5. Video conference : Whereby. 6. Desktop OS : Linux. 7. Social : Mastodon and the Fediverse in general. As said, I am eager to hear what you are using to help me move away from Big Tech as well. Always looking for new things to try. #Mastodon #fediverse #Linux #Windows #BigTech #Politics #Technology #Computers

Are you going to listen to Microsoft or are you going to download Vivaldi? #Windows #Linux #Macos #Vivaldi

Big Tech is using the nationalism card. When the EU wants to regulate American companies and fines them when they break the rules, then they want to see that as attacking American companies. What does it then mean when the DOJ in the US wants to regulate Big Tech and fines them for breaking the rules? The reality is that we need regulation. Big Tech has gotten away with too much. They have grown too powerful. They are doing too much damage. Choose smaller companies, when you can. Take a stand. #Windows #Macos #Linux #fediverse #Mastodon #Regulation #Politics #Vivaldi

You are here. That makes you unique. You have made a good choice to take a step away from Big Tech. Now, get more people to join us. Help them with the initial process of setting things up. If you have not done so already, download an alternative browser, such as Vivaldi as well. Consider whether you can move away from other Big Tech services. At Vivaldi, for example, we use Whereby for video conferences. Many of us have moved to Linux. Many of us use LibreOffice, instead of Microsoft office. There are options if you look for them. It is easy to go with Big Tech, but if you think the world would be better without them or if they had less power, know that you can make a difference. #Vivaldi #fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #Microsoft #BigTech #Apple #Linux #Macos #Software #Regulation

Did you just join us? Welcome to Vivaldi Social, Mastodon and the Fediverse. If you are coming from a place like X, Facebook or TikTok, this place is different. The good thing is that you only see things in your feed from people you follow. The content is shown reverse chronological. This means that you will likely see a lot less misinformation, hate speech and AI crap. But if you do not follow anyone, your feed will feel empty. So go ahead and find people and organizations that you like and follow them. Make things interesting. There is a lot of interesting people out there. The search is great for finding content and who to follow. Hashtags are useful when searching as well. #fediverse #Vivaldi #X #Twitter #Facebook #TikTok #SocialMedia

Roughly 18 months ago I had a small survey. I asked whether you would change a content algorithm you made if you found out it made people hate each other. Most of you said yes. Since then things have sadly not improved. I have argued that we need to ban user profiling. That the cost outweigh any benefits. I really do not think there is any other way. #SocialMedia #Misinformation #HateSpeech

Mark Zuckerberg continues to show his colors. We need regulators to step up their efforts to ensure there is free competition and ban user profiling. @European Commission #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #Regulation #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Twitter #Instagram

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies – POLITICO

Facebook did not have an over-censorship problem. Facebook main problem was that its algorithms promote hate speech and disinformation, lately with the addition of inauthentic content. Fighting that through fact-checking is always going to be an uphill battle. This is the reason I believe that content algorithms have no place in social media and that user profiling should be banned. Spreading misinformation and hate speech is a lot harder without the amplification algorithms.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social)

We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out ...

#Meta #Facebook #Mastodon #Twitter #X #Misinformation @npub1m24q...d9a3

I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas holiday with your friends and family. Stay healthy and happy! #Christmas #Holiday #Vivaldi