I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] chebra@mstdn.io 41 points 12 hours ago (16 children)

@Irelephant

> "Hey guys, I want to leave X, should I go to Bluesky or Threads? What? Mastodon? Never heard of that. Looks very complicated, I'll pass"
> -- CEO, founder, IT wizz on LinkedIn

Every time!

[–] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (15 children)

Or the classic "guys I am leaving WhatsApp, moved my whole family to Signal, another centralized US-based silo that requires phone numbers and runs on AWS, CloudFlare, etc."

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Signal: over a decade of leaking nothing and providing a great service for free, with some weird hiccups along the way like cryptocurrency.

Privacy "advocates": fuck signal

[–] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago

            
              if they leaked something you wouldn't know because US government law doesn't allow them to disclose if they requested data.
uses AWS servers that also the gov could ask for access to Amazon directly without even talking to Signal, being centralized and depending on AWS infra is also a weakness.
needing phone numbers to register, often tied to passport and it is super easy to get your whole network when compromising 1 device
all centralized services start nice, attracting users, once they have you, and money starts being a problem.... meet: enshitification

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