I am in the midst of setting up a Friendica install for my larger community. I’m trying out Elest.io for it, using netcup servers so I don’t have to deal with the security and hardening and starting off as cheap as possible with expandability. Just to try to filter people away from Facebook. A lot of people are starting to leave Facebook and I think it’s time to go back to basics. I might try to set up a Matrix server as well, but one thing at a time.
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Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 days ago
Great post. I have been wondering for awhile how those of us who understand the importance of all this can best organize and ensure growth towards a movement. What reliable orgs are honestly at the front, helping get the word out about these interconnected issues?
gdog05@lemmy.world 2 days ago
h333d@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s a big question because individual action only goes so far before you hit a wall, for the heavy-duty legal and policy stuff, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is still the gold standard, and I really respect The Calyx Institute for actually providing hardware and internet access that doesn’t track you. Also look at Tactical Tech, they do amazing work on digital literacy for activists, and the Matrix.org Foundation is building the actual backbone for the communication side.
But honestly, I think the most important “organizations” are the ones we haven’t built yet, the local community networks where people help their neighbors get off the corporate grid. My time teaching at the library with a digital literacy program for seniors taught me that we need people who can translate this tech into something a regular person can actually use, so the movement needs to be as much about education as it is about code, we have to be the infrastructure we want to see, one node at a time.