Wondering what alternatives are available for Twitter or similar centralized and censored services? This episode, we're sitting down with Sean O'Brien to chat about the need for decentralized and censorship-resistant micro-blogging and short messaging platforms.
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- Sean O'Brien's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/sean-obrien/
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- Talk Liberation newsletter -- https://talkliberation.substack.com/
Sean O'Brien's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- uBlock Origin, an ad and tracker blogging browser plugin -- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- GNU/Linux, specifically Debian and Debian-based distributions -- https://www.debian.org/
- Ubuntu, an easy-to-use Linux distro based on Debian -- https://ubuntu.com/
- Tor and Tor browser, and easy to use anonymous web browser -- https://www.torproject.org/
- Tails, a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship -- https://tails.boum.org/
- Signal, an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted messenger -- https://signal.org/
This week's project to help you Opt Out - Threema:
- Threema's website -- https://threema.ch/en
- Comparing Threema with other popular messengers -- https://threema.ch/en/messenger-comparison
- Threema source code -- https://threema.ch/en/open-source
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