Unlike Us #2: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives
Session 5: Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives (Debate)
Spideralex (ES) from Lorea
Conference Day 2: March 10 2012 Amsterdam, 13.30 – 15.30
Lorea is a seedbed of free social networks linked by federation protocols that allow them to communicate. Lorea is not just software, but also a technical and political tool for the federated web, bringing back autonomy, freedom and total control over our data and our memory to the hands of the users of social networking sites themselves. The federation knocks down the walls of the panopticon 2.0 run by corporations and political interests, and offers a non-profit alternative to regain our technological sovereignty in the world of social networks. The project is aimed at civil society as a whole, i.e. Citizens and social collectives and political change organisations that are motivated by the desire to interact, share, change things together, devise solutions. We seek to address all people and groups who value their online identities and ther security and privacy . We value the right to freedom of expression, and the right to share information and knowledge and do so within a free and neutral social web.
networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/2012/03/10/pitfalls-of-building-social-media-alternatives-debate/
