The Nexus of Privacy<p>if not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere</p><p><a href="https://privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-now-when/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-</span><span class="invisible">now-when/</span></a></p><p>Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning of news and health information to counter propaganda and information overload. The use cases for alternative social networks – not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's working with their cronies in authoritarian governments – practically write themselves in today's world. And with so many talented social scientists, designers, systems thinkers, and developers directly impacted by DOGE, MAGA, et al, there are a lot of people with the right skills for these new networks to make rapid progress.</p><p>The good news is there's a lot of promising work happening in the decentralized social media ecosystems known as the fediverses ("federated universes") and the ATmosphere (a fediverse built on Bluesky's AT protocol), including DAIR-tube, Blacksky, the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeFediverse</span></a>, and more.</p><p>Still, as promising as these efforts are, there's still a long ways to go.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organizing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blacksky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacksky</span></a></p>