A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
they left out framasoft (the greatest suite that most degooglers have never heard of)
I indeed had never heard of it, but now I have! I looks like a great suit of tools!
What’s your experience using it?
Cookie-walled article.
Script extension blocks them all on firefox.
i knew it wasn’t gonna mention the fediverse
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?
The steady exodus from Elon Musk’s X has benefited smaller, independent alternatives such as … German-developed Mastodon
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.
There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others
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)
curiously, he didn’t mention linux as well
Maybe the author doesn’t know the fediverse yet. We could try commenting there or maybe contacting him
