📚 Mastodon Meadow vs. Big Tech's Walled Gardens
The Social Media Alternative to Big Tech | Rooted Communications
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We connect with our regular tech-xpert Joe Cardillo (they/them) about growing off of Big Tech and for profit social media that only steals our data, manipulates our emotions, and harms our connection to each other. Plus, get started on the fediverse with our 📋 Mastodon for Social Change Follow List built on encrypted docs! Read on for more...
- 🗞️ Encrypted Apps Future (Wired)
- 🗞️ Ellison's Shut Down BET, Completing White Supremacist Takeover of Paramount (Hollywood Life)
- 🗞️ 15 Billionaires Own US News Media (Forbes)
- 🗞️ How & Why We Must Fight Social Media Bans (Electronic Fronteir Foundation)
- 🗞️ Pokemon Go Instrumental in Training Military Drones (dronexl)
Connect On & Off Big Tech
Mastodon • BlueSky • PeerTube • YouTube • Instagram • TikTok
🧰 Free Resources
- 📲 Get Started on Mastodon (Privacy Guides)
- 📋 Mastodon for Social Change Follow List (the roots of change agency)
- 🧰 Free Strategic Planning Templates (the roots of change agency)
- 📚 Toying with Our Emotions: The Social Media Algorithm (the roots of change agency)
- 📚 Why Even Post? Can Social Media Work for Social Change? (the roots of change agency)
- 📚 Anti-Gaslighting Guide to Social Media (the roots of change agency)
More Rooted Resources
Resource Hub • Signal Channel • Podcast • Free Templates
Breaking From Big Tech Social Platforms
On this week's podcast, Joe Cardillo (they/them) and host, Sam Chavez (she/they/he) discuss the Big Tech takeover of social media and how the fediverse is an alternative to for profit, algorithmic-driven apps. Adding decentralized social to your communications strategy can lead to deeper connection with your audience without a white supremacist tech bro controlling the space!
We discuss the fediverse as an alternative that hearkens back to the early Internet of social networking & community. For organizations looking to de-Big Tech their communications, we have advice on how to setup and build on the fediverse. Plus, get the 📋 Mastodon for Social Change Follow List to expand your fediverse follows! Watch today's preview on PeerTube.
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