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IMHO: If you want to fight (proto-)fascism and centralised, authoritarian regimes by relying on centralised infrastructure that can be blocked/outlawed/spied upon by said regime, you are doing it wrong, IMHO. Decentralised solutions, while coming with a more demanding learning curve, have proven to be far more resilient and sustainable. So have your fun on Bluesky, TikTok etc while you organise resistance here :)

(and please ignore the obvious troll in the replies that tries to tell you I'm not to be taken serious because I have a job)

Read the whole thing:
"Protect your private life. The broligarchy doesn’t want you to have one. Read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: they need to know exactly who you are to sell you more shit. We’re now beyond that. Surveillance Authoritarianism is next. Watch The Lives of Others, the beautifully told film about surveillance in 80s east Berlin. Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/.

The Guardian · How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth worldBy Carole Cadwalladr
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

I grew up in a family with a history of resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in WW2. I lived with and discussed for many days with people that were in the resistance against the East German regime while studying in Dresden. I spent time with people fighting for at Tahrir square in Cairo. One lesson is universal. Avoid risk by never having a central collection of information that could be found. Be it paper, audio recording or digital data outside of your control