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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Dear All,<br>
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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">For a long time, I’m
        planning to bring on the issue here that several accounts of
        Free Software related projects, communities, people, companies,
        etc. are quite active on proprietary social network but barely
        active or not active at all on the decentralized Free Software
        based ones.<br>
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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Now that
        #DeleteFacebook hashtag is trending and the diaspora* federation
        doubled its active users in the past weeks (see, <a
          href="https://the-federation.info/">https://the-federation.info/</a>),
        I do believe that it is a right time to finally fix this issue
        and all of us be at least as active on these decentralized Free
        Software based social networks as we are on the proprietary
        ones.<br>
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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">So please, if you
        post with some regularity on twitter, facebook, etc. post the
        same thing also on one of the decentralized Free Software based
        networks. It is not difficult to do that, but it can have a
        significant impact on when Free Software will finally also
        triumph in the sector of social networks.<br>
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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Also please pass on
        this idea and encourage others to do the same. (You know, if I
        only convince 2 people now but each of them also convinces 2
        people, etc. then <a
href="https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E37+people+%3E++people+ever+lived+on+earth">in
          just 37 steps we will convince more people than that are ever
          lived on Earth</a>… ;-) Seriously, I alone can only convince a
        couple of people but together we can convince a lot and <a
          moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement/transcript#t-75637">start
          a real social media Liberation movement</a> now...) <br>
      </p>
      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Thank you!<br>
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      <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Gergely</p>
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