Brian Pagán (he/they) @brianpagan@social.privacytools.io

I think I’ve finally understood what it is I’m building. Might sound silly but it’s actually one of the most important steps in making something.

Happy #SaferInternetDay! Let's celebrate with these privacy-friendly options:

Conference: #wire #jitsi
Chat: @signal @threemaapp
Collaboration: #mattermost #element
Office: @libreoffice Email: @Tutanota

Stay secure, use #OpenSource #FOSS

Here is more for inspiration: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/online-collaboration-covid

Let’s #CleanUpTheWeb one web site at a time (starting with yours). Remove tracking devices from surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, etc., from your sites and tell people you’re doing it.

For lists of alternatives, see: https://goodreports.com/ https://switching.software

Did you know you can buy ebooks for your #Kindle, #Kobo, or #Nook from bookshops other than the ones linked to your ereader?

You can buy ebooks from hundreds of bookshops!

Kindle owners: Buy MOBI books
Everyone else: Buy ePub books

Here you go!

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

They were so busy asking “will it scale?” they forgot to ask “does it need to scale?”

Small is Beautiful: The public stack and how to fund it

Live stream – tomorrow (Thursday) 5PM Cork (UTC +0) / 12PM New York (UTC -5) / 9AM San Francisco (UTC -8)

Join Sander van der Waal, research director at Waag, alongside Martine Delannoy, Chief Foresight Officer for the City of Ghent and Karl-Filip Coenegrachts from Cities of People as we discuss what the public stack is, why it’s necessary, and how we can fund it with public money.

https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/

To continue improving the experience on /e/OS, it's important to have a clear visual identity. Read all about our ongoing work on streamlining the OS and the improvements in our latest update!
Read on Medium https://cutt.ly/Hj7koh1
Read on the community https://cutt.ly/Mj7kQ0X
#UI

Privacy is the bedrock of personhood. It is the right that ensures the encapsulation of the person. All else – self-determination, agency, etc. – derive from this basic protection which we must treat as an inalienable human right.

Not on social media?

1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @SignalApp.

2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. https://t.co/d6nskMRxyP