On 10 January 2025 five Dutch civic organisations called upon the Dutch government to get rid of big tech social media platforms, such as X (aka Twitter), Instagram and Facebook with immediate effect.
The call refers to recent developments surrounding the deliberate stopping of moderation by Meta, the unashamed search for political power by the owner of X (aka Twitter) and the danger this poses to our democratic rule of law and freedom.
Today, an even larger coalition of Dutch civic society calls cultural and civil society organisations, as well as individual users to actively engage & invest in alternative social media platforms that safeguard public values.
Fediversity applauds these calls by Dutch civic society.
With our project, we are actively building the tools to support these, and other calls for digital autonomy. Facilitating organisations and individuals to leave big tech platforms for alternative platforms based on open-source software and open standards.
We belief that strategic digital autonomy is of paramount importance for our ability to communicate, collaborate, innovate and adapt in a continuously changing world.
Sadly, this has been severely hampered by the dependence on multinational ‘hi-tech’ conglomerates commonly know as Bigtech. Their insidious business models and practices have stifled competition, led to price gouging in certain markets, concerns about the use of personal data without consent. and attempts to influence elections undermining our democracies.
We need to free ourselves, our institutions, our companies, our
societies and our economies from the claws of Bigtech.
With Fediversity, we want to contribute to this, by offering you the
means to free yourselves from the shackles of Bigtech.
Built upon the solid foundations of NixOS and NixOps we are working on the blueprints to ‘automagically’ create, configure and maintain a set of interoperable open-source software application services. Using these blueprints we (and you!) will be able to quickly offer a compelling set of alternative services to the more well-known Bigtech platform services.
We are not there yet, but keep an eye on this website, subscribe to our feed or follow us on Mastodon for the latest news on our work.