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# IndieWeb
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The [World Wide Web was born open](https://cerncourier.com/a/cerns-ultimate-act-of-openness/)
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(every base software was made public domain by CERN).
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Then social media developed making it easier to non-technical people
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to have a part on the internet.
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Before Web 2.0 there was television and journals as information sources;
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Afterwards, people were able to create their own information as well as
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express their opinions.
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The internet started to close at the same rate as ads technology developed.
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To have a presence online has a cost. When it becomes free to you to have your
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presence, then you must be the product.
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Ad-tech plays a risk to society with its demands for personal information,
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and it is manipulative by promoting disinformation and extremism.
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The centralised social media plays privacy issues and has put the power of
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moderation in a few big corporations which have been censoring information and
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pushing to extremes.
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The IndieWeb allows diversity, doesn't build any monopoly, and welcomes innovation.
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Each instance has its own moderation policy and that's the extent of its power.
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As with email, you can interact with any server running a free network compatible software.
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And as with email, that server may have blocked you or not. Your moderation (if you are a
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system administrator) is limited to your own instance and instances who all have set you as
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a remote moderation. Every server is a different community who shares a common trust in their
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administrator and supports him to main the server active. Groups are federated, and therefore,
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you can interact with the people from other communities regarding common interests.
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Please note that how you see a certain group is affected by your instance's moderation.
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If you happen to be in an instance with a too severe moderation, you may want to leave it
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or set your own, otherwise you may be getting yourself inside a **filter bubble**. And that
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defeats part of the reason why it is worth joining the IndieWeb.
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Filter bubbles is when you're only able to see information and opinion that are in conformity
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with what you believe or reinforce your own beliefs due to algorithms designed to make your
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experience more personalised. These tend to be used on commercial social media. It's important
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to note and avoid it. This technology leads to unhealthy extremes because of the absent
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opposition and debate of ideas.
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