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Your guide to move away from big tech and support more ethical companies! (lemmy.ca)
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Nice guide that was posted on that other site.

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know you did not make this guide, but here are some corrections and more stuff:

Browsers:

  • LibreWolf is a good private browser.

Search Engines:

  • There should be markers for Bing and Google index-based search engines.
  • Mojeek is a sustainable, private, non-US search engine, that has its own search index.

E-mail:

  • Proton Mail has a scandal involving one of the founders saying pro-Trump things through their official Twitter account.
  • Tuta and Proton Mail have very good free tiers, you likely won't need to pay at all.

Social Media:

  • It is Mastodon, not Mastadon.
  • Akkoma is better than Mastodon, it has 10 times the character limit, and pledges to be sustainable, AFAIK. It's fully interoperable with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse, too.
  • Threads is also a microblogging platform that should be replaced.

Edit: The browser stuff is covered in another part of the guide. My bad!