Escaping-Social-Media

The workshop/discussion looked to explore what FLOSS options are available as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. The session ran for a couple of hours and surveyed a number of tools, use cases and issues to be considered.

The initial plan was to develop a set of recomendations that someone could adopt to begin on the road to leaving behind the corporates, things turn out a bit different than planned and instead it was more of a sketching of a number of use case scenarios.

Rough notes

The tools discussed were

Status Net

http://status.net

About status.net on the Techtools for Activism https://techtoolsforactivism.org/alternatives-to-twitter

mustard android app for status.net

Anonomised Twitter and FB: TOR > status.net > twitter - facebook

Anonomised Twitter and FB: Anon Wordpress > status.net > twitter - facebook

pirate.social UK

tumbler

Media Goblin

media gobin

Gnu-Net

gnu-net - P2P file sharing

Friendica

friendica

Lorea

https://n-1.cc/ - Lorea

Presentation https://n-1.cc/pg/file/read/1226119/unlike-us-short-lorea-presentation

Crabgrass

Crabgrass - https://we.riseup.net/

Use case

1. anon campaigner

2. not being farmed

3. totally private

Stop being farmed

Three things to stop your social graph being farmed, while keeping a mobile phone and a facebook account

Example of being farmed

Donttrack.us

devils in the detail campaign - UK

1. Dont be tracked

2. work towards not using FB - start using: wordpress, identica, crabgrass, email, wiki

3. ??

Lost and found

https://mat.boum.org/ - photo metadata stripping

Resources

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/resources/