Sophie K

We don’t just need decentralized social or messaging.
We need decentralized app stores.
Decentralized payment rails.
Decentralized identity.

Own our digital lives!!👊

WireMin: A Decentralized Social Network to Express Freely and Chat Securely. WireMin is a decentralized social network that is dedicated to full freedom of speech, privacy and security with end-to-end encryption.

Take wiremin.org as an example 🛡️
A decentralized social app that gives you:
✅ No data collection (your chats stay on your device)
✅ Anonymous, self-owned IDs
✅ Immune to bans by any platform, org, or government

This isn’t just about games anymore. It’s about control.

📢If one company can silence you, your voice was never really yours.

I see this as a clear push toward #Decentralization...
For anyone who values freedom, privacy, and creative autonomy.

I feel angry for feminists being used as tools by these payment companies. 😤😤

And I feel sorry for game devs whose games got taken down, some weren’t even adult games!
🔞
And for the ones that were adult: #Steam... what’s the point of 18+ labels??😂

The whole beef is still ONGOING between feminist orgs & payment giants (VISA and Mastercard) with #Steam users or game developers is waking to a harsh truth:

👉 Centralized power whether ideological or financial—can easily be used to censor and suppress creative freedom.

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

If you're a UK citizen, consider signing this act to free your internet from the clutches of tyranny
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Sign the Petition Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play

As members of the decentralized community wiremin.org, we pursue online freedom and strongly oppose this act of censorship abuse. Help us by signing this petition 👇
www.change.org/p/tell-maste...

Download the latest indie games itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

@steampowered.com and Itch.io removes thousands of games — not due to law, but because #Visa, #Mastercard & #PayPal are pressuring platforms over "content standards."

This is financial censorship in action.

Developers and players are pushing back👊👊👊
#censorship #Steam

Steam removing adult games shows "you can even censor another country’s free speech," claims Nier creator Yoko Taro This is about more than games

www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

#Steam removing adult games shows “you can even censor another country’s free speech.”

This isn’t just content moderation—it’s a dangerous shift where powerful orgs act as de facto #censors, threatening free speech, democracy, and artistic autonomy.

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

🔗 www.404media.co/researchers-...

Switch to a #decentralized #E2EE messenger for secure chats before they gather more:
@wiremin.bsky.social
@threema.ch
@simplexchat.bsky.social
@session-app.bsky.social

Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users According to its newest transparency report, Telegram complied with more than 5,000 requests from authorities in the first three months of 2025.

Sept 2024, #Telegram quietly expanded its policy to comply with more government data requests.

In Q1 2025 alone, it handed over info on 22,777 users.

😅You chose a centralized platform, what did you expect?
Source👉 www.404media.co/telegram-gav...

Honestly, if you want real privacy, try #decentralized private messengers. I can’t think of anything more secure.

WireMin: A Decentralized Social Network to Express Freely and Chat Securely. WireMin is a decentralized social network that is dedicated to full freedom of speech, privacy and security with end-to-end encryption.

Moving to decentralized platforms is a simple but powerful step to protect our privacy. Like wiremin.org

No servers collecting your data
No algorithms profiling you
No targeted ads

Your data stays with you. Stop letting #BigTech monetize your life!

#feminist #privacy #facebook #Meta #Zuckerberg

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads.

"Your data, our money." 😂😂

As a female social media user, I can’t stress this enough — I don’t want anyone monitoring my selfies😡, let alone profiting from them.

futurism.com/facebook-bea...

"Bluesky’s bowing to the Turkish government’s demands has raised questions among the community as to whether the social network is as open and decentralized as it claims to be. (Or whether it’s “just like Twitter” after all.)"🤔🤔🤔

Not a surprise—Fediverse ≠ Decentralization

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring 404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

This SocialNet tool enables real-time tracking of your activity, relationships, and movements.

Might get shocked to see familiar services are on the list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Apps that aren’t on the list:
Messenger: WireMin
Mail: Tuta Mail
Browser: Tor
#dataprivacy #breakingnews

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring 404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

🚨 A leaked list reveals that U.S. government agencies, including ICE, use ShadowDragon’s SocialNet tool to scrape personal data from 200+ popular social platforms and even so-called "secure" platforms like Signal, DuckDuckGo, and Wire. 404media.co/the-200-site...

They only show you what they want you to see.
Those who speak the truth get silenced.

💬 'Media Manipulation'

Ironic part? Most people buy it—just because these mainstream media outlets are everywhere, making them seem 'trustworthy.'

The power of media should be decentralized @wiremin.bsky.social

Avoid data leaks

Avoid Data Leaks
Use Protection🆗
#Privacy #Databreach #Decentralized

Sent directly from phone to phone, we call it E2EE. With no server collecting data, we call it decentralized.

If there are tools that meet both criteria, why are we still using Signal? Maybe @wiremin.bsky.social 🤔?

Sent directly from phone to phone, we call it E2EE. With no server collecting data, we call it decentralized.

If there are tools that meet both criteria, why are we still using Signal? Maybe @wiremin.bsky.social 🤔?

🚨Forbes: Russian hackers are exploiting Signal's QR code linking to spy on Ukrainian military chats. Google found fake QR codes linking accounts to Russian-controlled devices for real-time eavesdropping. #Breaking #DataProtection

Decentralized private messenger won't have this type of question🤦‍♀️

X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers | TechCrunch Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener used by the private messaging app Signal that allows users to send out a

⛔X is blocking links to Signal, known as a private messaging platform used by federal workers.

There are plenty of alternatives, even more secure since they are decentralized, such as: @wiremin.bsky.social

techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/x... #SignalMessenger #privacy #securitycode

Stay Private = Stay Anonymous = Stay Free

WireMin provides end-to-end encrypted large file transfers while being decentralized, ensuring that all your files are stored locally on your device rather than on any central server.🥰

UK's secret Apple iCloud backdoor order is a global emergency, say critics | TechCrunch Security experts say the ‘draconian’ order would have global ramifications that make this a privacy ‘emergency for us all’

🚨Update: "Apple will likely stop offering the iCloud encryption feature to users in the United Kingdom in response to the secret order, rather than break the encryption of users globally. "

Good, but UK users should start exploring alternative E2EE storage tools.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/u...