The VISION

More and more users of the traditional social media, as well as governments in Europe and in the US, have serious questions about privacy violations, one-sided censorship and misuse of personal data by the Big Tech.

When services are offered on a platform for free, the user is the product and, of course - this is proven in numerous scientific studies or simply 'Google': “the user is the product”.


And that’s exactly the business model of the American and Asian technology giants (Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Google, Apple, Samsung, Baidu, Alibaba and Microsoft).


The monopoly position held by these platforms brings colossal profits to their shareholders. After all, the owners who earn a lot from the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) own powerful data centres and digital production assets in which the Big Tech companies invest a thousand times more resources than countries or nation-states.


A European alternative to Big Tech

As indicated on our website (wearevitae.org see 'VITAE' button), the VITAE platform distinguishes itself in that it is not based on algorithms or a revenue model that considers users as raw material for the exclusive benefit of owners and shareholders of the Big-Tech platforms.

As users of VITAE, we believe in the promising potential of this new social media platform, which, based on a completely different philosophy, is an alternative to the American and Chinese Big-Tech platforms.


By and for the users

Thanks to blockchain technology an alternative to monopolies of this kind, which would be entirely managed by the users themselves is perfectly possible. As a result, networks can be created on the basis of mutual trust, without the intervention of third parties who enrich themselves at the expense of their users. With such an alternative, the wealth not only stays within the network, but is also redistributed in it and this is exactly what the Vitae project aims to do.


Being rewarded
Another important part of Vitae's vision – namely   'Growing Global Prosperity’ – is that we can use such a common blockchain and social network as a lever for a kind of universal basic income, without the intervention of the government.  And this is exactly what the Vitae project envisions by rewarding users for their activities on the platform, allowing them to earn additional income according to their achievements and creations.


FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DIG DEEPER IN THIS TOPIC:


-"Technofeudalilsm",by Yanis Varoufakis



- "Technopolitique" by Asma Mhalla


- "La dictature des algorithmes: Une transition numérique démocratique

est possible" by Lê Nguyên Hoang, Jean-Lou Fourquet



- "Controligarchs" by Seamus Bruner


- "Ces Milliardaires plus forts que les états" , by Christine Kerdellant


- “Don't Be Evil. How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us”, Rana Foroohar.


- “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New     Frontier of Power”, Shoshana Zuboff.


- “Gafa, Reprenons le pouvoir”, Joëlle Toledano.


- “Facebook”, Steven Levy.


- “An Ugly Truth. Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination”, Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang 


- “Datamacht en tegenkracht”, Kathalijne Buitenweg.


- “Faut-il quitter les réseaux sociaux?”, Jérôme Colombain.


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  • in this joint action....

    In this joint action to get the VITAE.co social media platform back online as soon as possible, it is not just about your individual interest. 


    It concerns the entire VITAE community worldwide and also future (for free joining) members of this beautiful VITAE project that we are building together.


    As indicated on this website (see 'VITAE' button), the VITAE platform distinguishes itself in that it is not based on algorithms or a revenue model that considers users as raw material for the exclusive benefit of owners and shareholders of the Big-Tech platforms.


    As Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar puts it in her book 


    ‘Don’t Be Evil. How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us’:


    “We need to shake off that feeling of powerlessness and realize that we can set the rules of the digital economy and society as we want and see fit.”


    So participate in our action!


    VITAE members have experienced VITAE.co as a reliable and workable alternative, which is why we request the rapid reopening of our platform.

  • The user is the product

    “THE TRIUMPH OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE” or how VITAE is the social media platform of the future.


    In his book “Le triomphe de votre intelligence – Pourquoi vous ne serez jamais remplacé par des machines” (The triumph of your intelligence – Why you will never be replaced by machines), published by Robert Laffont, 2022, Idriss Aberkane, the Franco-Algerian essayist and polemicist (eg in Le Point and for the HuffPost) describes what an out-of-the-box social media platform could look like.


    Curiously enough, that description contains a lot of characteristics that apply to the working method and vision of the vitae.co platform.


    “The user = the product”

    Aberkane rightly reiterates that “when services are offered on a platform for free, the user is the product” (p. 115) and, of course, he refers to the American and Asian technology giants that he labels as the FATGASBAM (Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Google, Apple, Samsung, Baidu, Alibaba and Microsoft). 


    Feeding Tech Giants

    “Aberkane clarifies (pp. 116-117): “One could ignore the FATGASBAM by developing a common infrastructure on a blockchain for the provision of all kinds of services.”


    However, if we continue to feed the power of the tech giants, they will crush us as users even more and further undermine our bargaining power. After all, it is the users who provide Facebook and its affiliates such as Instagram with content by offering day after day personal data and creations that only the Facebook group (Meta) gains from.”


    It should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg could proclaim "I'm the CEO of knowing-what-you-think Inc.


    Knife sharpeners

    According to Aberkane, the traditional knife sharpeners of the past could charge a little when they came by to sharpen a kitchen knife, but today we as users of their platforms are doing a much more efficient knife sharpening for companies that are already the richest in the world.


    “Let's therefore build wealth-creating networks ourselves, in which we protect the fruits of our work and our personal data instead of throwing them for free into the lap of FATGASBAM.”


    Universal Basic Income

    Interestingly, Aberkane also touches on an important part of Vitae's vision – namely   'Growing Global Prosperity': “We can use such a common blockchain and social network as a lever for a universal basic income, without the intervention of the government ( pp. 128-129).


    This approach is very different from the current concept of a universal income which will in fact be nothing more than a plaster on a wooden leg to meet a part of the population that will have become "useless" or "superfluous" as a result of a robotization of existing jobs and by applying artificial intelligence (AI).


    This is also exactly what the Vitae project envisions by rewarding users for their activities on the platform, allowing them to earn additional income according to their achievements and creations.


    FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DIG DEEPER IN THIS TOPIC:


    -"Technofeudalilsm",by Yanis Varoufakis


    - "Controligarchs" by Seamus Bruner


    - "Ces Milliardaires plus forts que les états" , by Christine Kerdellant


    - “Don't Be Evil. How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us”, Rana Foroohar.


    - “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New          Frontier of Power”, Shoshana Zuboff.


    - “Gafa, Reprenons le pouvoir”, Joëlle Toledano.


    - “Facebook”, Steven Levy.


    - “An Ugly Truth. Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination”, Sheera  Frenkel & Cecilia Kang 


    - “Datamacht en tegenkracht”, Kathalijne Buitenweg.


    - “Faut-il quitter les réseaux sociaux?”, Jérôme Colombain.