With #Movim by @movim, there is a #freeSoftware and #openStandard federated alternative to Discord. No #GAFAM #bigTech involved.

Now the hard part: Convince your #community to migrate.

#collectiveActionProblem #federation #Jabber #XMPP

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots.

One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of the Internet, while their own services can afford to withstand that load. The service owners are forced to perform costly operations to defend them selves, but also make the services worse for the users.

This is anti-competitive.

#AI #Regulation #Politics #BigTech

must-read on the proposed #EUKidsAct by @edri:
→ edri.org/our-work/the-kids-act…

> the #KidsAct may rob us of stronger protections for ALL of us, including children.

> [The Act] could cement the dominance of #BigTech over the few alternatives we have: services which do not harvest personal data, do not rely on addictive systems, are interoperable, or operate as open and free software.

#OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #Fediverse #OpenCommunication #DigitalSovereignty #FediLZ #ChildProtection

La intervención militar de las ‘bigtech’

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, X y Meta tienen papeles protagonistas en la guerra contra el pueblo palestino.
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#IA #Censura #GAFAM #Bigtech
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sursiendo.org/2024/11/la-inter…

Serious Question: who cares about #mastodon user counts? and why? – outside #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC #Media #Attention #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism interests?

#OpenWeb
#Privacy
#Encryption