In this talk we will talk about privacy and security issues of using centralized social media platforms and proprietary software.
I will talk about the network effect, the fact that social networks (and use of other software) are more useful if more people use it. It is necessary to grow the number of users of these technologies before any individual can enjoy the benefits of this software.
We, as an open source community, need to actively organize people to collectively start using decentralized and free and open source software. Creating local groups (hackerspaces) and events that will bring people together and use decentralized applications as main means of communication is the easiest way to give the users an immediate benefit of using these technologies.
I will mention some decentralized apps like Matrix,XMPP and Mastodon, and emphasize the importance of installing these apps even if we don't need to immediately have use for them.
