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We are a social enterprise stewarding data in members' interests. No VCs. No exit strategy. Just people reclaiming control from algorithmic overlords.

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6/6

Every prompt you send to BigTech's chatbots becomes their training data and their moat

YOUR data serves YOUR interests. Store locally or in your own cloud. Switch models freely. Export anytime. You're not building the moat by using the models.
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🛠️ Calling all devs, data activists & AI builders

We're actively recruiting contributors to help build the future of user-controlled AI interaction.

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4/6

Stop scattering your AI conversations across corporate silos.

✅ Multi-model access (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc) ✅ Context management across sessions ✅ System prompt library with lots of brilliant pre-loaded o/s prompts ✅ Google Drive OR local storage

Take back control 🔥
3/6

Open Source Focus: We're not another tech corp harvesting your conversations.

FIDU ChatLab is 100% open source, built by a not-for-profit social enterprise. Fork it. Audit it. Control it.

Your prompts. Your contexts. Your storage. Your control. #OpenSource #DataControl

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Yes, Solid on its own puts too great a burden on the individual, when most of the value that comes from data - and the very reason that platforms have built both great power and compelling products - is that it is collective. Hence the "data union" metaphor.

as a pragmatist, I would first lobby for the minimalist version, then nudge and hope that cyberspace evolves in the maximalist direction.

the "minimalist" would impose on current platforms a duty to provide an API on fair/reasonable/non-discriminatory terms, so that the union would not be shuffling data around so much as managing access permissions [...]

I agree, @sigridellesmere.bsky.social, security and privacy need to be at least as good as they are in our platformised world. imo, There are 2 broad approaches: the "maximalist" would follow the Tim Berners Lee/Solid vision of separating apps and data and having specialist "vault providers [...]

To provide credentialised data to individuals that the public sector holds about them