Brain Health.
This may be overwhelming but take it easy. Step by step. Get used to it. You'll see the benefits for sure!
You see, people think that we should dream about a Resource Based Economy, follow TVP or the like. Let's build a new society, a city, a community...
Ok, go about doing those, although they seem quite unachievable. Society doesn't change like that, it evolves, and emerges. We have to focus on what the problem is, not what the solution is, because solutions follow problems. And they are multiple.
In any case, if we do not take care of people's brains then we go nowhere. If most people spend their time on facebook, twitter, youtube, netflix, and the like, consuming like consumers, trading their attention and overall brain for nonsense content, then we cannot build anything. We cannot even start a discussion about creating a different society.
So here's where TROM comes in and helps. Since the human brains are mostly exposed to the online world, we are building a different online world for these brains.
Listen! Here's how you can take care of your brain and your friends' brain.
1. Start with your device. If you use a mobile phone then we can't help you for now, but maybe in the near future. For now you can replace your computer operating system with TROMjaro. tromjaro.com/ . This operating system is fast, easy to use, customizable, stable, and removes all of the bullshit. No more ads, trackers, no more trades. It comes with a plethora of useful tools and features out of the box. It is the basis of your digital world, the foundation.
Use our library of trade-free apps if you are searching for a particular app tromjaro.com/apps/. Click install. That's all!
2. Read our books. They are well sourced and a direct attack to and a dissection of this society. tromsite.com/books/ . Click and read. You can also download them in PDF.
3. Watch our videos. We put a ton of effort into these and are on the same par with our books. tromsite.com/videos/ . Click any and play.
4. Stay informed with sane news. tromnews.com/ - we put a lot of effort into this one to bring you nonstop news from all around the world. No political bullshit. There are several sections there so you can also watch a ton of curated educational videos, amazing photos of our world, and more. Use TROMnews as your daily brain food.
5. Give up movies and switch to documentaries. If you think this is irrelevant, stupid, or boring, then you do not understand how important it is to fill your brain with real and awesome information. Documentaries are not boring if you watch the right ones. Reality is unbelievable. And important. Via videoneat.com/ we make thousands of such materials available as trade-free. We have documentaries and courses. Give them a try. We hand curate them.
We even have a Smart TV that takes these materials and streams them nonstop. See videoneat.com/tv/
6. Give up these ad-platforms that call themselves as "social networks" like facebook, twitter, youtube, and the like. If you want to create posts and share with friends, keep in touch with them and all that, use our social platform social.trom.tf/ . No ads no bullshit. You are in control. Learn more about it here trom.tf/social/. And if you want to upload your science/technology/activism videos use our video platform videos.trom.tf/ . Again, no ads no bullshit. No trades. The more you spend your time on those ad-networks, the more mush your brain becomes, thirsty for consumerism, lacking awareness, not understanding what is happening in the world, and wanting more nonsense content. Don't let that happen! This move can seem hard, but do it! Else you'll become like the rest.
7. Give up the basic internet tools you are using that are consuming yourself. Slack, Google services, search engines, etc. See our trom.tf/ where we have a ton of such alternatives that work great. Also see our Trade-Free Directory directory.trade-free.org/ where you can search for more such tools. From messengers to search engines, you name it!
You TZM, TVP, and the like people, use the TROM decentralized chat chat.trom.tf/ instead of the BS Discord, use our Files files.trom.tf/ for your documents and collaborations, use our Send to send files send.trom.tf/, and so forth. We built these tools for you and everyone else.
Ok.
We do a massive amount of work to create a different world for the brain. One that's realistic, honest, smart, sharp, alert, and one that can see the world for its amazingness, and the society for its awfulness.
If you do not get why this is important, then you don't get it. We run this entire alternative digital universe with some 200 Euros a month...so if you can help us keep it, please also consider a donation - tromsite.com/donate/
We work on a new big documentary and more tools.
Help yourself! #tromlive
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in reply to TROM • • •I agree with these points. But let's not forget we can't change people by naming and shaming. I'm Dutch, so I'm used to direct criticism, it's part of our culture. But some people tend to shy away when you address their ways as bad (such as not using open-source). I hope I'm wrong of course and we can just tell people to use something that aligns with our RBE goals without drama. But humans are emotional beings :)
How many people are involved with TROM? You're doing a lot!
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in reply to TZM Community Forum • •I understand that we have to be nice and friendly. And I'd say 99% of the time we have this attitude via TROM. But at times a more strong-worded post may do more good than harm. I am sorry you or others may have felt a bit attacked by this post. It was not meant to be like that. Just to be a more direct and honest one.
We are doing these tools for many years now and maybe at times it is a bit frustrating to see that even groups like TZM or TVP seem to not take advantage of them. We get a lot more involvement and interest from people outside these groups. Perhaps it is a lack of understanding on both or at least one side. TROM focuses on a problem while these other orgs seem to focus on a solution. One that is ill defined and so far non existent. Fresco via TVP was always, from my understanding, focused on a problem. This entire monetary system. His RBE idea was, from my understanding again, just a way to showcase that in theory we could ditch the monetary system for another system. But the important message was the problem. So TROM tries desperately to talk about the proble
... show moreI understand that we have to be nice and friendly. And I'd say 99% of the time we have this attitude via TROM. But at times a more strong-worded post may do more good than harm. I am sorry you or others may have felt a bit attacked by this post. It was not meant to be like that. Just to be a more direct and honest one.
We are doing these tools for many years now and maybe at times it is a bit frustrating to see that even groups like TZM or TVP seem to not take advantage of them. We get a lot more involvement and interest from people outside these groups. Perhaps it is a lack of understanding on both or at least one side. TROM focuses on a problem while these other orgs seem to focus on a solution. One that is ill defined and so far non existent. Fresco via TVP was always, from my understanding, focused on a problem. This entire monetary system. His RBE idea was, from my understanding again, just a way to showcase that in theory we could ditch the monetary system for another system. But the important message was the problem. So TROM tries desperately to talk about the problem, and in the same time create and promote solutions that are a vessel for information in that regard.
So we strongly argue that trade is the origin of most problems (not money as Jacque or others were pointing at - trade is far more encompassing); and we create trade-free goods/services to both help people and help spread that original message of " trade is the origin of most problems ". And I do not think groups like TVP or TZM understand this approach or see it that relevant. They seem to focus on an idea like RBE, that seems "out of this world".
Ok. Long post. How many people are involved with TROM? A handful. Very few actually.
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in reply to TROM • • •impressive that you are able to do all this with a handful of people!
forum.tzm.community and meet.tzm.community are my efforts to change TZM more towards open-source. Practice what we preach. The server also runs on renewable energy.
I think activism is luxury. People need to have the time and energy to work on it. For some it's a bridge too far to switch to open-source software and decentral platforms. It's very sad. Also since some people stick to Discord. We should do better.
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in reply to TZM Community Forum • •Oh that's very nice! We should then keep in touch. We do a lot in that regard. We have a ton of tools and such. We can help each other ion that regards ofc. I like that you have Jitsi Meet on your server, it is something we do not have. We are on Matrix so if you wanna join our Discussion chat here matrix.to/#/#chat:matrix.trom.… - we can give you some tips if you want, and help here and there to setup some open source services on your server.
We see the value in the open source not simply because it is open, but because many such projects are trade-free. They do not want anything in return from you, the end user. And that creates better incentives overall.
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in reply to TROM • • •hi! Sorry for the late response. I was super busy with work.
Let's indeed keep in touch! I'll install a Matrix client this week so that we can chat. I now use Element, which uses the private server from work. Multi account is not yet supported, so I'll use a GNOME Matrix client to connect with the regular Matrix network I guess.
I agree on what you say about open-source. But let's not forget that much work is done by Intel, RedHat, IBM, etc. It's not purely trade-free :) It can be though
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in reply to TZM Community Forum • •For example we contacted TZM, Peter Joseph, and others to ask them to move from the ad-networks to the networks we have that are trade-free. But no response. And I think they do not see the value in this. We have to showcase to the others that there are trade-free alternatives out there and maybe we can build more of them. But if you guys and others fighting this nonsense society, feel it is difficult to merely change your online presence to a saner alternative, how can we change this society? I am glad to see you on the Fediverse. What is the TZM Community Forum?
So in essence if we bring people to these alternative networks we also make a point about how facebook and the like are "bad" and why they are "bad" (because you have to trade with them - your data, attention, currency - and this incentivizes them to do a lot of "bad"); and at the same time we showcase that we can create trade-free social networks that are decentralized. We showcase how alternatives do work. Not to mention that we can keep people a bit more sane by nit having to use those ad-networks.
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