Building A Social Movement Toward Alternatives — Janet Vertesi — FediCon 2025

**Janet Vertesi** gave a talk at FediCon 2025: "Tech Reclaimers: Building A Social Movement Toward Alternatives". Janet Vertesi is a Sociology Professor at Princeton University who is recognized for working with NASA robot space-craft teams, running https://www.optoutproject.net/ , and being a co-founder of Tech Reclaimers. Follow Janet Vertesi at: https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra --- FediCon is a Canadian conference on the Social Web, decentralized social-media & social-networks, and the Fediverse. https://fedicon.ca https://techhub.social/@fedicon https://spectra.video/@fedicon --- FediCon is project of the Open Social Web Society https://opensocialwebsociety.org The Open Social Web Society (and FediCon) was created by: Charles Iliya Krempeaux The Open Social Web Society is a B.C. Society — in B.C., not-for-profit / non-profit organizations are known as societies. --- FediCon 2025 was organized by: • Charles Iliya Krempeaux https://mastodon.social/@reiver • Crissy Kuchisabi