Practical Guides

Concrete steps to escape Big Tech and take back ownership of your communication and data.

From simple account creation to running your own server — start wherever you are.

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1Beginner

Create an account on Chaos.social (active, free community)

Chaos.social is a Mastodon instance focused on privacy, freedom, and an active, friendly communit

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2Beginner

create nostr account

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3Beginner

element migration

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4Beginner

Create an account on Fosstodon

Fosstodon is a Mastodon instance focused on open-source, tech, privacy, and free software — perfect for developers, makers, and privacy-conscious people.

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5Beginner

Create your first Friendica account

Friendica is a decentralized social network that connects with Mastodon, Diaspora, Bluesky, and even old systems like email.

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6Beginner

Create your first Hubzilla account

Hubzilla is a powerful, decentralized platform with social networking, cloud storage, blogs, and nomadic identity — your data travels with you, wherever you go.

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7Beginner

Create your first Lemmy account

Lemmy is the decentralized alternative to Reddit: forums (sublemmies), communities, and discussions — without a central owner or algorithm controlling your feed.

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8Beginner

Create your first Mastodon account and migrate from X/Twitte

Mastodon is not a replacement for Twitter — it is better: you choose your own server, your data is yours, and you can always move.

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9Beginner

Messaging apps without Big Tech

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10Advanced

Make Your Node Externally Accessible

Access you're node securely from the internet, no port forwarding, multiple methods from beginner to advanced

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11Beginner

Peer-to-peer payments

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12Beginner

Create your first Pixelfed account

Pixelfed is the decentralized alternative to Instagram: share photos, no algorithm controlling your feed, no ads, full data portability.

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13Advanced

Run your own sovereign node at home (Raspberry Pi + Umbrel)

This is the way to own your own piece of the internet: Bitcoin node, Nostr relay, Nextcloud, photo backup – all at home, all yours.

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14Beginner

Searching without Google

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15Beginner

Video without YouTube

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16Beginner

The Guides are Living

It is a commons, a shared garden that grows as long as we keep building on it.

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