Website for Sustainable Alternatives to BigTech
Yesterday on Digital Independence Day I've launched a small website suggesting sustainable alternatives to BigTech products.
I've started with five categories: Email, Search, Maps, Browsers, Messaging.
There are some controversial picks in there like Proton Mail or Brave. They do have a pretty wide adoption but have severe downsides. I'll probably remove them again. What do you think?
Which categories would be the next most important ones to add? Which services did I miss on the existing ones? Feedback welcome.
#DIDit #DigitalIndependenceDay
Find Sustainable Alternatives to Widespread Big Tech Products on SustySubs.net
There are a lot of good reasons to get away from Big Tech. We show you some good substitutes!Klaas Ole Jordan (www.sustysubs.net)
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ayush
in reply to kjtrnc • • •Thanks for sharing, but the website doesn't seem to work - substysubs.net/
PS: A clickable link would have been helpful.
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in reply to ayush • • •Find Sustainable Alternatives to Widespread Big Tech Products on SustySubs.net
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in reply to ayush • • •As @eleijeep@piefed.social pointed out correctly: it's a typo in the url. The correct URL is sustysubs.net/. Added a link to the website now.
Find Sustainable Alternatives to Widespread Big Tech Products on SustySubs.net
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Unknown parent • • •Brave is developed by a complete bigot, Proton praises Trump in the name of political neutrality or whatever the fuck.
I think neither of them should be recommended as an alternative by anyone anywhere. They do not represent an alternative, they are the same shit in new wrapping.
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)Arthur Besse
in reply to kjtrnc • • •here is a comment i wrote recently listing some of the reasons not to use proton. i'd also recommend against vivaldi (proprietary), brave (so many reasons), and everything in your messaging category besides matrix (and matrix also has lots of problems but it is the least bad of the ones you're recommending). sorry that i don't have time to elaborate right now (it's a lot), but for the inevitable "what about signal" question see my comment here and more here.
ps. if you do use signal, consider adjusting your Who Can Find Me By Number setting (see that link for a fun implementation of the attack against signal users who leave it as it is by default). note that the same thing could technically be done in matrix too, albeit by matrix ID instead of phone number. 😬
pps: here are my comments about tuta 🙄
Anyone can track WhatsApp and Signal users' activity, knowing only their phone number: "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers" - Lemmy
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in reply to Arthur Besse • • •Are there some Messaging apps you'd wholeheartedly recommend?
Arthur Besse
in reply to kjtrnc • • •Fleppensteyn
in reply to kjtrnc • • •I hadn't heard of Here We Go and so far it's the only Maps alternative that actually gives correct routes for public transport. I wonder why its rating on Play is so low (2.9).
As for Gmail alternatives, I wouldn't consider it a real alternative if you have to pay for it.