I know this has been discussed a lot across the fediverse already, but I recently learned about the Fogg Behaviour Model (FBM), and thought it would be interesting use it as a frame.
Basically, the model says that people change behaviour when they are motivated, have the ability, and are given the right prompt or nudge in the right direction.
How do we nudge people who are...
- In the top left, i.e. are motivated, but lack the ability to use privacy-friendly alternatives?
- Are in the bottom right, i.e. have the ability, but don't care or have the motivation?
Unfortunately, my impression is that most people are in the bottom left, and think of the invasive surveillance of Big Tech like the weather; "I just have to deal with it". How do we give these people the ability and motivation to escape the data vampires?
You can lead a horse to water
Right, so that'd be part of moving us to the "easy to do" end of the spectrum.
I don't feel the community does a great job of "leading the horses to water" though. I know I avoided VPNs for the longest time after learning half a thing about logging and such, and largely only jumped on the band wagon when it got wrapped up into my existing proton mail subscription.
How can we do a better job of leading the uninformed to water is the real question, I think.
Sadly I think we'll have to take the water to them.
My current approach is building a media center for me, as a model for one I'll send to my siblings/friends.
Besides being a media center, it'll enable replication between them, with some backup services for laptops and phones. And some replacements for things like facebook/photo sharing, etc (and have a chat mechanism, most likely via XMPP).
And...it'll have something like PiHole that I'll manage centrally.
Similar (though VERY slow moving) effort to do the same on my end.
My big hesitance is that I would need to centralize management (cause gods is it hard to get anyone to understand ssh), which says to me I'd need to have something public facing on my friends and family's networks. That pu lic facing bit just makes me squeamish.