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On discussions around here about recommendations to alternative social media platforms and other digital services, there seems to be a growing presence of believers of European platforms, the platforms are vouched for not on the merit that the alternatives to US services themselves are good, functional and are independent of any state/private sector interests, but simply because the platforms are European, which is framed as “secure” and “sanitized” from any of that potential “bad stuff” we’ve witnessed (AI slop, helping the state to suppress activism, on one hand allowing freeze peach, which really just emboldens neonazis, on the other censors anything going against the interests of the West, etc).
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/
I’m having difficulty to articulate this but… why move from one doghouse to another if all you cared about was the color of the roof?
I very much agree, the platforms have to be qualitatively different in nature to make it worth moving.
coming full circle given that German nazis used US as their model
Good for you!
I’m also not getting rid of my Macbook and iPhone, at least for now
Oh… 😔
Getting off US services is probably the more important part.
Both iPhones and MacBooks (to a lesser extent) rely on US services provided by Apple. They (techically) can execute arbitrary code on your devices if you have auto-update enabled (and probably even if not). They’re almost definitely spying on you, your habits, your decisions etc.
To be fair (as a Samsung Android and MacBook user), so do nearly all phones altogether. On a computer, you can just install Linux to have a Microsoft/Google/Apple-free OS. But nearly all smartphones run Android (if not iOS).
I guess then that we need more Linux phone development.
I mean once you switch off from key things like email, calendar, and cloud storage, then it’s a lot easier to move over to a different device.
Paris is my seventh favorite Marx.
lol
Everyone should’ve started this way before Trump.
