Activistic Salon in Amsterdam: Goodbye Facebook, hello Diaspora*
Last week, November 3rd, an activistic salon was held at the underground Vondelbunker in Amsterdam, organized by squatting collective Schijnheilig. The activistic salon is a weekly event that brings...
View ArticleLeave Faceboogle! Join the Social Swarm
German privacy NGO FoeBuD is planning ‘Social Swarm’. An international campaign that will encourage people to turn their back on the big, centralized, data-hungry social networks. “We want a social...
View ArticleUpcoming events: The Global Square – Berlin Biennale
[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at Berlin Biennale is divided in two types of activity: Nodes (contents) and Actions. Nodes are: 1.- TGS Starting date: 27 April Presence:...
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“Breaking down the walls” by Paul Sulzycki // Unlike Us Reader
We are happy to announce that our first-ever Unlike Us reader is set to be printed in January 2013. The reader will cover a facet of social media topics, from activism to theory to decentralization....
View ArticleThe Dutch queen and the dark side of social media
With our queen abdicating at the end of coming April, it’s hard to avoid the retrospectives of her reign that now dominate the Dutch news. When it comes to social media, however, you might expect...
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The Federated Web Show – Rethinking Decentralization
The best way to criticize platform monopolies is to support alternative free and open source software that can be locally installed. A lot of alternative social networks are being developed with the...
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