You have the right to control your data, devices, and services. We coordinate, develop and foster communities of Reclaimers who want digital independence. Together, let's reclaim the right to a technical future of data sovereignty, digital autonomy, responsible governance, and collective care online for all.
Our phones and tablets have become essential parts of everyday life. Protect yourself from greedy apps trying to collect your journeys, friends, photos and preferences. Learn how to adjust what you share and what you own, so you are in control. As you grow more confident in your skills you can adopt alternatives that ensure your privacy and security.
Social media companies mediate between our friends and family, collecting our relationships, our memories and stories, and our most personal thoughts. By choosing to communicate safely and securely, without a middleman, you can track birthdays and anniversaries and share your life's journeys, photos, and videos.
Stay in control of who sees and knows what about you. You can transfer precious files, photos, and conversations among your family and friends over private, secure connections. Prevent image theft and profile spoofing. You don't have to have your most intimate conversations in someone else's virtual living room!
A vast data collecting system sniffs out everything you do online, captures and holds your data captive, selling access to the highest bidder. Ad blockers are not enough. You can spot the leaks, stay in control, and exert as much power over your data as possible if you keep it where you own it.
All the conveniences of a futuristic home, without cameras and open microphones spying on you! Learn how to swap your virtual assistant for systems that put you in the driver's seat. Avoid the data-stealing Internet of Things and administer your own Digital Homestead, where you are in control.
With so many possibilities out there, it's hard to know which apps or systems to trust. Get behind the interface to appreciate how and why choices about economics and governance matter just as much as the color scheme to help you make the right technical choices to own your digital life.
We are a growing grassroots movement, a non-profit seeking to help us all reclaim control over the technologies, devices, and services that dominate our lives.
We love technology. But today's tools are not delivering a faster, more efficient and reliable automated future; instead they trap us in products that can feel impossible to exit or change.
We believe it should be easier to leave the platforms that no longer serve us or our communities, our neighborhood businesses and our governments, to find replacements that do not compromise our connections and do so feeling empowered, not isolated!
We are building a community to connect each other with better technology, better systems, and more control as you make the transition to a different digital world, amid like-minded people seeking independence.
We don't want tools that exploit us, mine us, and prey on our weaknesses. Instead we embrace tools that support our strength, resilience, and power.
We post Reclaiming tips and events on Mastodon and Bluesky to help you in your journey to a new digital you. Use #ReclaimTech to connect!
Our Mastodon Bulletin is a good place to start for tips that help you reclaim your data and get you oriented on alternative social media.
On the first of the month, every month, join in #StopTheScroll to shift your habits in community with thousands of other looking to reclaim control.