Having communication tools that avoid big tech is resistance. It doesnt require doomsday to be useful. Tech companies are luring people into giving away too much data by reducing our available options. Creating alternatives is resistance to that movement.
Just recently i was looking to buy a second hand fridge and realised that most people around here advertise those in facebook pages. I even tried to recreate an account after years of not going there. But it asked me to scan my face… just to create a fucking account to view those fridge posts… Since i dont want that, im locked out of that market…
Having communication tools that avoid big tech is resistance. It doesnt require doomsday to be useful. Tech companies are luring people into giving away too much data by reducing our available options. Creating alternatives is resistance to that movement.
Just recently i was looking to buy a second hand fridge and realised that most people around here advertise those in facebook pages. I even tried to recreate an account after years of not going there. But it asked me to scan my face… just to create a fucking account to view those fridge posts… Since i dont want that, im locked out of that market…