Hi, In the recent days all of you would have heard how companies like facebook, google, yahoo, microsoft and apple are spying on its users and reporting them to US government. It is time we stand up for our right to privacy and build our own communications infrastructure. Many of you would already know about the diaspora project and some of you are already using it, many of you have just created an account and expecting your friends who may not care about privacy and freedom will become active first before you start using it.
*Diaspora* is decentralized, meaning there is no one diaspora provider like facebook.com or plus.google.com or twitter.com. It is like the internet and email itself, many different websites all interconnected (gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc for email). There are services like joindiaspora.com, diasp.org and poddery.com all run by people who care about privacy of users and are willing to put their efforts where their mouth are. You can see a list of diaspora services at http://podupti.me. You just need to sign up at one place and you can connect with users of any other diaspora service or even people running other software like friendica. Else, you can also get yourself a server and start a pod. *poddery.com* is one such diaspora service provider and Joe Bivins from Florida has been running it for about 31 months and he cannot continue running it for some personal reasons. Some of us in the diaspora and free software communities are standing up to continue running it. We are collecting funds from people around the world to buy server hosting and run the service ourselves. You can find more details about the campaign at *http://savepoddery.com* <http://savepoddery.com> All of you can contribute and we need everyone who care about privacy and freedom to join this campaign today to take control of our communications from big companies whose only motive is to make money out of what we share and big governments who wants to control us so they can enjoy more and more power. We need *1600 Euros* (our government does not allow any paypal account holders to accept money from outside and our friend Joe Schraube from Germany is accepting money on our behalf) and we already raised around *266 Euros* in 3 days of the campaign. Please contribute whatever you can afford, 1 rupee, 10 rupee, 100 rupees, 500 rupees, and help us buy this server space for keeping a diaspora service up and running for all the people in the world. If you have a credit card, you may pay at our indiegogo site http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-diaspora-service-at-poddery-com-live/x/509624?c=home or if you have a internet banking account you can transfer it to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing's bank account as per details on http://savepoddery.com/#perks If not, any one of you can volunteer to collect money and send it as a DD to any of us or even hand it over directly to any one of us. (For contact details, reply to this mail.) It is* your* campaign, join in today to take back your privacy and freedom. There are other ways to help too if you can't support financially. You can tell your friends, parents, neighbors, cousins, classmates, share it on facebook (If you are still reporting everything you do to US government), twitter etc. Make posters and paste it on your campus notice boards at FSMK etc. This is just the beginning, though we made great progress in Free Software, we have more challenges today like Software patents and freedom in the cloud. So lets stand together and build a better world today based on freedom, justice and respect for human rights. If you have any questions about the campaign or about diaspora feel free to ask. Regards, Balasankar C Save Poddery Campaign Team (which now includes you too :) )
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