If the "free world community" does not react rigorously / consistently to such developments (in the #US), then...
I think it's less about #BuyEuropean and more about #BoycottUSA and avoiding toxic #BigTech like #Facebook #Amazon #Google #x #Apple #openAi ( #bluesky ?) etc.!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bovmlgn3ctylxg7vohm7fe3x/post/3lkj7afb3uk27
@jogi @kuketzblog .. wir sollten neben #UnplugTrump auch KeithlMyers/unTrump von seine vermtl. gute Idee mit Code fuellen, aber nicht wie vorgesehn beim us M$ Ableger github, sondern als #FOSS in der EU nach #MadeInBerlin holen auf dem #codebergOrg #JoinCodeberg und so fernab USA mit dem GroßenTeich , äh Atlantik dazwischen, weit ab von den #MuskTRUMPelTieren Bezos ... Cook ... #BigTech
...see also
holtwick.de/en/blog/it-strategy-for-europe
2020-08-26 !
@AllEuropeans @ueeu
Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens, by Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl)
https://archive.is/2025.03.16-120407/https://www.ft.com/content/79d2d19a-08df-48fc-9a6f-a9dbef58f642#:~:text=Changing%20the%20algorithm,regulation%20around%20this
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#überwachung #bigtech #demokratie #trump #musk #usa #putsch
"Schon vor Jahren warnte Ex-Harvard-Professorin Shoshana Zuboff vor den Risiken des Überwachungskapitalismus. Mit der neuen Trump-Regierung sieht sie Demokratie weltweit in Gefahr. (...)
"Sie können bestimmen, was Menschen denken"
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/oekonomin-harvard-shoshana-zuboff-uberwachung-kapitalismus-donald-trump-100.html
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Cecilia Rikap about how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership.
Recorded at the @rosaluxstiftung Berlin. Many thanks!
If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America.
Europe's most obvious geopolitical asset is the size of its market. The continent’s GDP reaches $24.5trn, almost as big as America’s. US firms, from brewers to banks, would like to continue doing business in that market.
That is the premise of the EU’s retaliatory tariffs, which will fall initially on easily substitutable luxury goods.
Would you be interested in becoming a paying member of an organization (association?) offering access to technology without ads & surveillance crap?
Tech such as:
- A Mastodon account
- A Pixelfed account
etc
A membership fee:
- based on nr of people & costs e.g. more people less costs; till a certain point
- a percentage of is invested in the development of the tech we use
- Includes voting rights to govern the organization
- Supports fair wages
Manchmal ist man sooo eingefahren, an Gewohnheiten gebunden, daß man nicht merkt, wie sehr sich die (Konsum)Welt verbessert.
Durch Wechsel auf #Linux & #grapheneOS für privat habe ich feststellen dürfen, wie gut sich #FLOSS für Privatpersonen entwickelt. Jahrelang ignoriert.
Durch Verzicht auf #amazon habe ich festgestellt, daß sich #Onlineshopping und #Kundenservice bei vielen kleinen Shops maßgeblich verbessert hat, während amazon nachlässt.
@dreirik, is this really an unavoidable consequence? I know what happened to XMPP, but did the same happen to email? Despite corporate dominance, email remains a universally used protocol across different business models.
Imagine if I couldn’t send my “ugly duck” email from my own server to Gmail or Outlook. That’s essentially what’s happening now by blocking interoperability on the social web. Yet, millions are already in the Fediverse.
If this is a real threat, how do we protect the Fediverse? I believe we need more funding - not just to go mainstream, but to fix fundamental UI and technical issues that make life unnecessarily hard for users. These problems require resources, yet discussions in the most popular Fediverse apps often take years to turn into action or have solutions.
@ethanz
Scary article. 
And the Tiktok campaign seems to lead to Russian state-actors ....
Also:
"The education system, still working through post-communist reforms, has not effectively equipped students with essential tools for critical thinking, media literacy, and political engagement.
As a result, a substantial portion of the population becomes vulnerable to easily consumable, emotionally charged content on social media."
#BigTech #Romania #Election
Y Combinator, ein im März 2005 gegründetes US-amerikanisches Gründerzentrum mit Sitz in San Francisco, Kalifornien, forderte die Trump-Regierung am Mittwoch in einem Brief auf, den europäischen Digital Markets Act (DMA) offen zu unterstützen...
Had enough of big tech browser corpos like Google (Chrome) or Mozilla (Firefox) collecting your data and selling them to Advertisers?
Then it is time to uninstall them and get yourself a Norwegian browser Vivaldi with 0 external investors!
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡: 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝'𝙨 '𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚'
How a 1997 Book Predicted Tech’s War on Democracy…
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-individual-radical-bible-of-techs-cognitive-elite/
Was superleuk om vandaag vanuit @publicspaces bij te mogen dragen aan de #MakeSocialsSocialAgain helpdesk sessie van @noorderlicht!
Mensen die meer willen weten over alternatieve sociale media kunnen nog naar aantal bijeenkomsten gaan. Kijk daarvoor in de agenda op:
https://makesocialssocialagain.nl
Deel dit vooral ook met vrienden, familie en collega's die nog niet op Mastodon of het Fediverse actief zijn 
"Food has for some time been a gateway to misinformation online, especially when bound up with ‘wellness’ culture. Type the word ‘natural’ in a search bar on any social media platform and it’s easy to fall down a raw milk/ginger-cures-cancer/antivaccine/'NATO is to blame for Russia invading Ukraine' conspiracy theory rabbit hole."
~ Signe Johansen
#food #cooking #wellness #foodie #misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #algorithm #SocialMedia #BigTech
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/against-the-algorithm-how-big-tech
With all of Meta's latest actions, I can imagine Mark Zuckerberg sitting in a dog bed on the floor in the Oval Office. Then Elon Musk comes to pet Zuckerberg's head and asks: "Who is a good tech CEO?"
#bigtech #meta
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/meta-community-notes-to-use-open-source-technology-from-elon-musks-x.html
@pluralistic I’m reading chapter 12 of Chokepoint Capitalism and it’s really sad to see how we are very far away from fair antitrust policies, especially now with an oligarchical government run by the Big Tech. It’s somehow disheartening.
#bigtech #monopoly #monopsony #uspol #ChokepointCapitalism #books #reading @bookstodon
#bigtechusa #america #usa #bigtech #microsoft #apple #google #alphabet #libreoffice #opensource
Moving away from Big Tech USA has started. Company offices are evaluating moving away their IT solutions from US-companies towards open source solutions like Libre Office
fosstodon.org/@libreoffice...
LibreOffice (@libreoffice@foss...
Vanavond interessant debat!
"Migraties van overheids-ICT naar het buitenland":
Ik ben erg benieuwd naar het perspectief van de @staatssecretarisbzk zeker gezien zijn recente uitlatingen in de zaak rondom @SIDN waar ik gisteren op reageerde:
https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/114148963223063272
En een langer stuk over op LinkedIn (noodzakelijk kwaad; bezig met eigen site) heb gedeeld :
Mia’s Simulacrum 
