Your guide to moving away from big tech and supporting more ethical companies! (Extended) : degoogle

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Proton CEO is supporting the fascists.

2025-01-16 - Proton CEO supports business policies of republicans

2025-01-28 - Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

And they've pulled out of the Fediverse.

2025-02-26 - Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

2025-01-28 - Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

Anything short of anti-fascist is fascist. "Politically neutral" is nothing but a lie.

[–] tfm 6 points 3 months ago

That's correct, and I'm critical of them too. But they haven't compromised the values they promote up to this point. Only the future will tell if it stays that way.

And they've pulled out of the Fediverse.

That's unfortunate. Let's bring them back by strengthening and growing the fediverse!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should not recommend any Chromium-based browsers, as even if they try to be independent from Google, they still contribute to Google's hegemony over web standards.

[–] tfm 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understand that. But where do we draw the line for open source projects? I'm all for boycotting Chrome. But not Chromium, a real open source project.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It depends on what alternatives there are, but I, for one, try to draw the line at the point where the project is controlled by and/or designed to serve the corporation I'm trying to boycott.

It's kinda like how the M$ fanbois say "Microsoft loves open source now" but then when you look into what projects they're contributing to, it's all middleware for getting Free Software to run on top of Microsoft stuff and other self-serving shit like that.

Being open source is a necessary condition for a software project to be considered good and beneficial to society, but it is not sufficient in and of itself.

[–] Liljekonvalj@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

F-droid and aurora play store are good alternatives to Google play

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why isn’t SoundCloud included in Spotify alternatives?

[–] tfm 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good question. Probably because it isn't a conventional music streaming service?

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the answer! I’m curious, how do you define “conventional”?

[–] tfm 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't SoundCloud more like a social network for music?

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes it has social features like DMs and comments, but its music catalogue is bigger than others, since it allows everyone to upload

[–] tfm 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have to check it out again. I wonder if there is a federated alternative out there.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There’s funkwhale: https://www.funkwhale.audio/

[–] tfm 1 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah right. Wanted to check them out for a long time.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ms office to libreoffice at the end so people don't give up early when they reach that step ;)

Also putting 'privacy' on vivaldi is odd, as it's not open source

[–] clockwooork@sociale.network 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@tfm

Hey! Do you mind if I translate this pic to Italian and repost it?

[–] tfm 2 points 3 months ago

I've just reposted it from Reddit. So I'm not the creator. But you find the username of them in the post text :)

[–] mondomon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

My girlfriend and I switched from Amazon Music to Deezer recently, and it's the bomb.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

“Free” is an overloaded term and they are using it to mean /gratis/.

Mozilla Firefox is not free of Google. FF contacts Google servers even if you are only browsing a local html file. Thus not a deGoogling option.

Signal is also not a deGoogling option because Moxie wants his Google stats and cattle-herds people into playstore.

[+] heleenkuiper@mastodon.nl 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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[–] tfm 1 points 3 months ago

@heleenkuiper @toolsontech on the web you simply right click and hit "save image"

[–] toolsontech@pkm.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@heleenkuiper @tfm in my mobile client I can usually click the image and hit the download arrow top right.

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nice, but Firefox, Tidal and Bluesky should not be listed for obvious reasons.

[–] btr_fan87@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What are the obvious reasons?

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Firefox for the recent privacy issues (they removed the promise that they'll never sell users' data, lots of online debates about this).

Tidal was owned by Jay Z (billionaire) and had some controversies around music quality, inflating play counts, plus the free option is only for the US if I'm not mistaken.

Bluesky is "decentralized" but has one instance. "No billionaires" but is funded by crypto bros. It's going to enshittify very quickly. It's better than nazi twitter, but Mastodon exists so why bother.

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Jay-Z sold most of his majority stake to Jack Dorsey/Square but not all. He retained 20% of his shares and AFAIK is still involved with Tidal.

Qobuz is another music streaming and download service. I haven't tried it yet but have kept it on my radar.

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Qobuz seems interesting too as it's non US. But I always used Deezer so never got the chance to try it.

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I looked at them when I was ready to ditch Spotify. The only reason I didn't go with them was because Tidal and Deezer were cheaper.

[–] btr_fan87@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for letting me know. What alternative to Firefox would you recommend? I want to stay away from chromium. I don't know a lot about Librewolf. Do you know if that one's worth looking into?

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Librewolf seems to be a good alternative for Firefox. Specially for privacy issues.