The replacements for Chrome, iOS, Twitter or WhatsApp are here: Brave, eOS, Akasha, Status ...

This is the title of the article posted today in Vilaweb, “a Catalan-language web portal and daily news outlet, founded in May 1995 by the journalists Vicent Partal and Assumpció Maresma. It was the first online medium produced completely in Catalan, and the first news media in Spain to be based entirely online.” They have a global edition in english.

This is the translation (via google): The replacements for Chrome, iOS, Twitter or WhatsApp are here: Brave, eOS, Akasha, Status ... Criticism of the appropriation of the Internet for large companies has created a whole galaxy of alternatives that rage the fight against the monopoly as a flag.

This is what they said about Steemit: “Social networks: Steemit or Akasha against Facebook and Twitter

Social networks have been the most fertile ground on the Internet in recent years, but also what has generated the most problems. Facebook's conflicts have come to world politics and Twitter loses its fame of neutrality-for example, on last September 11 closed VilaWeb's account for a few hours when the demonstration began and has not yet deigned to explain the reason.

At the moment, the two alternatives that seem more viable respond to the names of Steemit and Akasha .
Both are presented as decentralized social networks, and Steemit even gets to pay its members for especially good content. Akasha is a network that is particularly interested in freedom of expression, human rights and the fight against information control. It has two applications, one web and one desktop, but they require technical knowledge to put it into operation. It is not yet ready for a normal and ordinary user. Steemit, on the other hand, can be used from a web page without any further complications. Obviously neither of these can be compared to the number of users, not far from today's social networks, but experts consider them to be the clearest alternatives, if they can take advantage of criticisms of monsters in the current network.”