When Facebook proclaims to be a place for people to stay in touch with their friends and families, connect with others and such, it is like a Mall pretending it is not a shopping center, but a place where friends and families can meet and greet. Just because Malls have added some benches, trees, and playgrounds for kids, it does not make them a communal place for people to meet others, relax, and have a fun time. They are still shopping centers and all they want is for you to consume their products. To trade your currency for their stuff.
Similarly, Facebook is a place where you trade your data/attention/currency to them - it is an ad platform - regardless if they added "benches and trees", or messengers, photo albums and a comment section for posts. They still are an ad platform.
Don't be fooled!
Malls are shopping centers, and Facebook is an ad (trade) platform, together with youtube, twitter, tiktok, google search and pretty much all websites nowadays.
Our latest TROMCast about deplatforming can be watched here videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/38β¦ or here tromsite.com/videos/ . It got suddenly interrupted at 1:30 , we do not know why, maybe my (Tio) internet connection dropped for a second. We recorded a second part and merged them all in one single video. Enjoy! #tromlive
We will go live in 1h and a half, here tromsite.com/live/ and anyone can participate. The subject: deplatformed. We will talk about how big companies have the power to silence anyone and what to do about it. #tromlive
Two more applications added to our trom.tf/ - but both are under "The following may not work properly, or are not fully trade-free:". So please be aware of that. We added Wallabag as bag.trom.tf and Framaforms as forms.trom.tf.
Right now we provide 18 trade-free services! 12 work perfectly fine. 1 is not customized. and 5 are mostly not properly customized/configured or are not very stable. #tromlive
We are talking about this new word "deplatforming" and what are the implications of it. How a few companies can mute anyone they want, and what repercussions does it have.
Anyone can participate via chat or video/audio. The info links will be posted on our live-chat a few minutes before or after the live will begin. If you want to follow us directly on Peertube see this link videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/10β¦
We have a new trade-free service available for trom.tf/ ! It is a meme-maker.
A simple tool that allows you to create βmemesβ. Add text, background images, change colors, font types, save them in the browser or on your computer. meme.trom.tf/ #tromlive
We want to release a trade-free alternative to Unsplash, videoblocks and the like. A huge gallery of free to use videos and photos. We have tested it and so far so great, but for now it will be invitation-only so if there is any of you out there who is passionate about taking photos or making videos, please tell us so we can give you access. All that we will upload there will be free to use for any purposes: trade-free in other words. So, there is your chance to make things just a little better in this world, by taking interesting photos and adding them to our Trade-Free Media directory ;). #tromlive
I was working all day on this and it looks great. Furthermore the move from our websites in german to our new server went very smooth and everything seems to not only work, but everything is faster than ever before. Loading speeds of website and books decreased a lot and all of that is possible thanks to @YunoHost who provide such an amazing tool to host digital services (wordpress-websites, social media platforms, video platforms, search engines etc.) by yourself! Also thanks to @Tio who worked a lot on moving all websites to our new server!
Ladies and gents, we are releasing yet another service for our trom.tf! A real and quite complete trade-free alternative to Google Docs office.trom.tf/ - read more about it here trom.tf/office/ . Create documents in seconds + kaban + polls + whiteboards. You don't even need an account, unless you want to save your work for more than 3 months. Everything is fully encrypted. Share, comment, work collaboratively. Take advantage of it! #tromlive #tromimg
Introducing a new amazing category to our tromnews: PHOTOS tromnews.com/photos/ - amazing nature photos from all round the world. Let your eyes have sex with the screen :) #tromlive
Our trade-based society is an idiotic society that will never change as long as most humans are forced to trade in order to survive. No regulations will change anything. No rules, no education. If people who care about climate change, environmental destruction, slavery and so forth, are not up-in-arms against Apple, Facebook, Google and the like, then they have no idea what they are talking about. In fact, they should be angry at the society that produces such monsters.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, all of these apparently "in the cloud" entities, are as bad as any oil company or banks. They destroy everything for their own sake. And people still use them...
But is the society that needs to be changed, never forget that! #tromlive
Our FInteresting category on TROMnews is back! tromnews.com/finteresting/ - it is a mix of very interesting SubReddits, such as Showerthoughts, Data Is Beautiful, Ask Science, Today I Learned or Explain Like Im Five. The great part is that we use teddit for the job, a trade-free reddit browser. So when users click any of the cards in FInteresting, they can read the post and comments in a trade-free way. Awesome! If Teddit will become a @yunohost package we will implement it on our trom.tf ;). We would like to do the same for our curated videos and pull them from our Invidious instance. We could do that, but out plugin does not support pulling feeds from Atom, only from RSS and Invidious only offers Atom feeds. If you know any other very interesting SubReddits let us know. #tromlive
They do not provide an RSS feed github.com/spikecodes/libreddi⦠- and teddit's RSS is very robust it seems. We need that to pull the items to our newsfeed.
We did the recording with @Dima today! Very good one! Some 2h long. Tomorrow we will do a much shorter one - not much left to record ;). All great! TROM II is back-on-track! #tromimg #tromlive #trom2
A new service added to trom.tf/ ! Nitter bird.trom.tf/ : It allows anyone to browse any Twitter account without having an account on twitter.com, and without trading their attention (ads) or data. On top of this, anyone can subscribe to any account via RSS. #tromlive
Now anyone can translate trom.tf/ in any language. No account or approval required. The downside is that it s not 100% trade-free since there is 1 google tracker in the translation module when you use it. Not sure how to remove it for now... #tromlive
Added more sources to tromnews.com/ . Honestly it is super difficult to find good sources of news nowadays. For 3 major reasons:
1. Many want something for you, be it your attention (ads), data, or currency (subscriptions) and this practice of trade pushes them to create click baity news, and bad quality ones. It is damn difficult to find more objective news even when it comes to science. Like most tech websites are either paid articles (ads), or talking about "fahionable" nonsense tech like the new shitphone. No real tech news about real tech discoveries. On top of that they are incentivized to post a ton of news, constantly. So we get spammed on tromnews.com.
2. News sources are very politicized. And we need no politics if we are to remain sane. Politics is a shit show and will always be biased and full of crap. But even sci/tech news is full of "politics" and interests.
3. News sources repeat the same "big" story, even when it comes to sci/tech, and thus we end up with duplicates.
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Added more sources to tromnews.com/ . Honestly it is super difficult to find good sources of news nowadays. For 3 major reasons:
1. Many want something for you, be it your attention (ads), data, or currency (subscriptions) and this practice of trade pushes them to create click baity news, and bad quality ones. It is damn difficult to find more objective news even when it comes to science. Like most tech websites are either paid articles (ads), or talking about "fahionable" nonsense tech like the new shitphone. No real tech news about real tech discoveries. On top of that they are incentivized to post a ton of news, constantly. So we get spammed on tromnews.com.
2. News sources are very politicized. And we need no politics if we are to remain sane. Politics is a shit show and will always be biased and full of crap. But even sci/tech news is full of "politics" and interests.
3. News sources repeat the same "big" story, even when it comes to sci/tech, and thus we end up with duplicates.
We want reliable news from sci/tech and if possible society (bit not politics). And that's hard to find. If anyone knows any sources, please tell us. #tromlive
We have scheduled 1 trade-free app for our TROMjaro library tromjaro.com/apps/ for the next (almost) 2 months. So keep an eye on that, or subscribe here via RSS tromjaro.com/follow/ or just follow us here on social.trom.tf ;) . #tromlive
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