A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
Why doesn’t it mention the Fediverse at all???
Seems like they’re advocating using a Fairphone running e/OS, Ecosia as the search engine, LibreWolf as the browser, LibreOffice as the office package, and W for social media?
Yeah, that was my main criticism of the article, it completely omitted social media.
Also, the author mentions Codeberg as the “developer” of Librewolf, so it seems is not the most tech savvy around.
Cody Berg was hired by Linus Tovalds after Gita Hub left his company.
And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)
The steady exodus from Elon Musk’s X has benefited smaller, independent alternatives such as … German-developed Mastodon
Someone once said “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good” … or something like that.
Anyway, my point is it’s good that this kind of stuff is starting to get into mainstream media, even if they don’t go into as much detail as they could.
They might not have wanted to scare people off by giving them too much information all at once, especially things like the Fediverse which even lots of tech savvy people don’t really understand.
they left out framasoft (the greatest suite that most degooglers have never heard of)
Oooh! They made Peertube?!
Don’t forget to ditch Google and Apple pay as well.
i just want a linux phone
Amazon is a hard one to find an alternative to. Mostly what I try to do now is buy directly from the brand. But they don’t always have their own website.
Other times I can find the item locally. I’ll buy it even if it costs a little more.
Also, sometimes the item is only available at Amazon or Home Depot online, for example. In that case, I’ll pick Home Depot cuz they’re a slightly smaller megacorp.
As a very last resort, I’ll will begrudgingly buy from Amazon. Like if the item is only on Amazon or if the item is significantly cheaper there…
But, fuck Amazon Prime! That’s a total scam. I canceled that years ago and never looked back.
Same, you are right. I find that Amazon just has many things that I cannot find on store shelves. Otherwise, I follow a similar process.
First thing I saw was “Subscribe via Google”
What is the opinion on Vivaldi here as an alternative? I am using Firefox and Zen currently. But I wouldn’t mind jumping towards a European alternative. I switched to Firefox to support an alternative to chromium based browsers, but I think EU/Nordic angle is more important to me.
Personally I would days away from any chromium-based browser, if only on principle.
Zen is great and keeps getting better, if anyone tried it some time ago and had stability problems, chances are your experience would be much better now.
I’m using Vivaldi and I really like it. The way I can group tabs into workspaces is really nicefor example.
i knew it wasn’t gonna mention the fediverse
Cookie-walled article.
Script extension blocks them all on firefox.
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