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OCTOBER 2021

What's inside

  
  • 🔮  Major announcement
    • Where we're going with neon
  • 👀  Neon news
    • One of our services becomes free 
  • 📹  Reel of the month
    • Bye Bye IGTV
  • ⚖️ Big Tech and misplaced trust
    • Recent Antitrust lawsuit against Google
    • Facebook -> Meta, and we despise that
    • Let's be honest...
  • 👻 Secret Halloween treat
    • n̗̟͚̙ͧͥͩ͗̀eͭ͏̤̪ǫ̤̖̬͔̋͐ͤ̚n͕̪̔͝t̮̯̻͙̼ͨ̈̀o͉̭̲ͭ͟o̡̥͚̺͈͎̖̠̽̅̒l̢̥̭̝̦̀ͯs̿̑̈́҉̦͙͙̺̤  is glitching
  • 📩 Past newsletters:
    • Check out what you might have missed!
major announcement

🔮 Where we are going with neon

When Karim and Misch founded neon three years ago, they gave themselves a mission to teach and empower digital creators. This mission hasn’t changed, but the world has, and so have our personal interests. 

We will focus even more on building and teaching about the things we genuinely believe in 🙏

Our goal is to actively work towards independence from giant corporations that currently ‘run the show’ in a monopolistic way and thus control the very existence of our current business model.

If this idea resonates with you, head over the blog post and see how you can join in 🤝
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neon news

👀 One of our services becomes free

We finally decided to make one of our platforms entirely free to show that we mean what is said in our released statement. We have been considering this for some time already, and the recent developments have assured us that it is the right thing to do.

Read the official announcement to see which product will become free (from November 15th on).

In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for coupons to save 100% starting today 🧐

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reel of the month

👋 Bye Bye IGTV 👋

Fittingly for the time of Halloween, IGTV is now dead for good. However, we can assure you that this ghost of the past will probably never rise to haunt you 🧟
RIP IGTV
big tech and misplaced trust

⚖️ Recent Antitrust lawsuit against Google

This 173-page long antitrust lawsuit against Google might not be the only reason why we decided to change our path. It has accelerated the process immensely 😡

We know that reading through 173 pages of "lawyer talk" can be incredibly dull. However, this information is affecting us, our lives, and especially our future. So at least do a little research and gain an overview of what is going on.

This Twitter thread might be a good start: Enter the rabbit hole 🧵
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🌌 Facebook -> Meta, and we despise that

On October 28th (2021), Zucc & Facebook announced that Facebook would now be named META. And we find this to be very problematic.

The terminology META is by no means new, and there are various branch-offs and definitions to it. Now Facebook is trying to own this word and single-handedly define its meaning 👿

In this case, META refers to the metaverse concept, which has become a global idea and dream of the future. The dream is that the metaverse will be a virtual and real space where people can freely interact, fair and uncontrolled ☁️

The metaverse should be:
- decentralized and not regulated by ONE company
- shared by all and not owned by few
- preserved by standards and not regulations

This is now in danger because one mad CEO wants to define a concept with his company...
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⚖️ Let's be honest...

Let's be honest. None of this is surprising if you paid attention over the past years.

Whether it was Amazon crushing competitors ON THEIR OWN PLATFORM (more) ... or Facebook unlawfully acquiring innovative competitors that succeeded where Facebook's own offerings fell flat or apart. (more)

The revelations never seem to stop, and yet nobody seems to notice. So it is about time we all try to look at the situation with a clear view. And we would be thrilled if you joined our journey in doing so.

Best way to start? Join our Discord server, be part of the discussion, and maybe even the solution 🤗
Join us
secret halloween treat

👻 n̗̟͚̙ͧͥͩ͗̀eͭ͏̤̪ǫ̤̖̬͔̋͐ͤ̚n͕̪̔͝t̮̯̻͙̼ͨ̈̀o͉̭̲ͭ͟o̡̥͚̺͈͎̖̠̽̅̒l̢̥̭̝̦̀ͯs̿̑̈́҉̦͙͙̺̤  is glitching

Is there one thing that makes more sense than implementing a dark mode on Halloween? No? We are glad you agree with us.

Stop by and see the horror show for yourself 🎃

so dark
last but not least

⚰️ RIP social club

Taking the first step away from big tech platforms also means that we will move all of our social club activity into the depths of our discord server. One more reason to come and say GM 👋
past newsletters

📩 Check out what you might have missed

In case you missed a newsletter or want to look up articles, blog posts, and news from the past, we created a collection of our newsletters on a neon.link page. You can find all the links and recent content on neon.link/newsletter.

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