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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (www.theguardian.com)
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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

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[–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The steady exodus from Elon Musk’s X has benefited smaller, independent alternatives such as ... German-developed Mastodon

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    This is probably a much more efficient "mention of the fediverse" than if the journalist had started trying to explain that there is this federated network of independent social media sites bla bla bla.

    The people reading this are looking for something they can understand. I expect naming Mastodon and leaving it to them to check it out will convert more people than if they started trying to explain what it is.

    I'm a bit weirded out by all the attention given to w-social.eu by mainstream media, though. First of all it doesn't exist yet, second we have no reason to believe it will actually be decent, third we have good reason to believe it won't be.

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