Hi y’all! 👋🏽 For this week's podcast, we release part of my conversation with organizer, Stone Cairns, on de-Googling our lives amidst a digital coup led by U.S.-based Big Tech companies. We offer practical tips to transition, better alternatives, and why it's important for social change.

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• The growing user-friendly alternatives to big tech.
• Enshitification & the decline in user experience on platforms.
• Allowing the apps to shape our reality and thus our organizing
• How do we do activism away from capitalist thinking around work?

"The internet doesn't have to suck!"

References / Resources

• Rebel Tech Alliance to find Big Tech Alternatives
• 🔐 Cyber Security Resource Hub for Activists
• Cal Newport YouTube
• Slow Productivity Series
• Decolonizing Your Tech Stack Case Study
• Support Stone’s Graphene Project!
• Net Neutrality & Securing Our Privacy

About Stone Cairns (they/them)

Stone Cairns works with world changers to find creative, life-affirming action to create the world we want - one of ease, grace and justice.

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