Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, “manipulating”) people to pay attention. Big Social Media sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site. The attention economy is sometimes associated with: loss of free will loss of Privacy psychological harm al...| www.complete.org
“Free (as in freedom) Software” is all about giving you back control of your digital life. Both Debian and the Free Software Foundation have definitions of what it means to be free; in general, it means that you must be able to: Inspect how the software works and modify it (source code access) Give away copies of the software, whether modified or not Base other software upon it, or integrate it into other projects (sometimes with the requirement that these other projects also be Free).| www.complete.org
The loose, decentralized confederation of non-profit Social Media sites such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube. They all use ActivityPub for federation. Links to this note Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now This started out at a post on my blog. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date. How to Join the Fediverse and Cast off the Attention Economy This started as a post on my blog.| www.complete.org
This started as a post on my blog. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date. In How the Attention Economy Hurts You Via Social Media Sites Like Facebook, I wrote about how the Attention Economy in use at big Social Media networks hurts you. In this post, I’m going to suggest what to do about it. Mastodon and the Fediverse When you use Email, you can send a message from an account at Google to one at Yahoo, Microsoft, or any of millions of businesses and organizations runni...| www.complete.org