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All of the 11 interviewed organizations depend on a multitude of third-party tools for their work, including big tech platforms such as X, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram. These services are seen as "necessary for the outreach and networking" including to the audiences who are only present on mainstream platforms. However, the majority of interviewees share a feeling of mistrust towards centralized services (see thread) -->
#research #migrations

dComms is a research driven project. Beyond setting up infrastructure for decentralized communications, we're also conducting a first of its kind survey on #migrations of civil society organizations towards #federated tools. We analyzed 20 countries as candidates for hosting our toolkits and ended up with 11 countries as a short-list. We conducted a series of surveys and interviews with CSOs and learned a lot about perceptions and hopes associated with the #Fediverse (see thread to learn more)