mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Save democracy - Switch away from Big Tech products at https://rebeltechalliance.org/ (where I'm a co-founder)
If you're in #London next weekend come to see us at the Resisting Big Tech Empires event on Saturday!
Saturday 25th April 11am-6pm, @ South Bank University
@pluralistic@mamot.fr is headlining (on at 4.30pm) and we (Rebel Tech Alliance) are on at 3pm
We'll be going through all the best alternatives to #bigtech apps, and discussing how to use them.
Tickets are FREE! https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/
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Fresh #bigtech hell - this just popped up in my work: #MicrosoftTeams cloning your voice 🤢
Do NOT opt in to that... obviously.
If you suspected #InsiderTrading by the #WhiteHouse, you were right:
https://x.com/gothburz/status/2047148829917528134
That's my kind of evidence - from someone in compliance who monitors the trades.
And yet nothing is done. Massive #corruption: $2.1 billion in two months 😳
Who could do an investigation, Follow The Money?
Great article, but when mentioning that the advertising model is bad for privacy you should go further, and explain just how much of a massive data breach it is: via the #RTBsystem
Brief explainer here:
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/rtbsystem.html
The Resisting Big Tech Empires event yesterday was great! So many people showed up to our workshop that quite a few had to stand 😳
And we shut down the surveillance settings in all their phones during the session 🤘
And a huge bonus for me was getting to meet Cory Doctorow in person!
The organisers were great: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/ Thank you to Daisy for inviting us and helping on the day!
You can find all the stuff we talked about at our website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ and our blog.
yes #bigtech cannot be trusted. The only way is to sidestep them!
Find alternatives at https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
or for a fun way to interrogate our site's content, choose 'Big Tech Alternatives' in the red options at the top of the chat box and chat with the bot about what alternatives are out there: https://mollyvsthemachines.com/home
To see which phones can do the Easy Install (web installer) for Iode - look here: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html
This horrendous data theft by #Perplexity (and sale to #Google and #Meta)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/perplexitys-incognito-mode-is-a-sham-lawsuit-says/
is why we wrote this article on using #AI with #privacy
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/so-you-want-to-use-ai-privately/
AI is unprofitable - so with no design safeguards in place, OF COURSE they're going to sell you out!
https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/post/46083470
Why #ageverification is such a bad idea - it's a #surveillance and hacker honeypot.
And these early adopter platforms have been well paid by #Meta for this.
@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net is the Google gemini spyware install from Chrome (found by @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social) present in the Vivaldi code?
Job opening: https://the-citizens.com/2026/04/job-opening/
Campaign Lead – Digital Sovereignty
I know the management at The Citizens. They're good people, so come on fediverse, bring forth your best!
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