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GnuPG is the way to go, argues Oğuz
How about @signalapp ?
Signal has sooo many problems, Oğuz states:
- It's a walled garden
- There's no federation
- Nothing on F-Droid
- Threatened a developer who wanted to fork (apparently? don't have the details on this, just reporting)
- Everything must go through Signal's central servers, which .... as the recent outage shows, use AWS!
Digital feudalism is the reality today, argues Özcan Oğuz in their talk.
"You don't need to understand" is the new serfdom. Where people loose their freedoms, privacy, and control
Kosha created Akoopa, a fork of the Tor browser
"I miss those days", says Kosha.
Peer-to-peer, openness, hacker spirit of the early internet in the '90s
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Reclaim the web! But how?
this talk by Jah Kosha which may have some answers:
The utopia, according to Margola, would be that everyone who wants to would be able to get paid a full wage for their work
Is this indeed a utopia? Would this be the desirable endpoint? 
Money changes everything. What would this mean for voluntary work?
It's not enough, says Margola.
It may require you to do pretty much a second job maintaining FLOSS, which isn't an option for many (and potentially also not sustainable)
Some other alternatives for getting money for open source development:
- Crowdfunding and donations, e.g. through github sponsors (Microsoft), open collective
- Government money, e.g. through NLNet
- Donations from companies, such as through Open Source Pledge
- Get regular work time allocated for open source development
Margola discusses 2 models for getting money for free software development:
- Charge for features. This has its problems.
- Open core (≠ FLOSS)
'Open core' is like the free waiting area in an airport, where the full, non-free enterprise version gives you access to the VIP lounge