By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.β©
For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.
Letβs lead by example π
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just small circles π
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •Nicolas Fournier
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •and much more...
european-alternatives.eu/alterβ¦
European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives
European AlternativesPaul Sutton
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •Great work, if there is time, may I suggest
TikTok - > loops
Youtube -> Peertube
WordPress - WriteAs
? -> Jammy
jannah wijffels
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •Mike Macgirvin π₯οΈ
in reply to jannah wijffels • • •streams
Codeberg.orglps
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •S π± L V I Ξ
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •In addition some #instagram square designs to boost #global #switch #day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025. (1/2)
Also a big shout-out to all the beautiful people who develop and maintain the software for the decentralized social web. Help them build the #fediverse for everyone by making a #donation.
S π± L V I Ξ
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •Zitrone
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •may i add?
i know that #bandcamp is a different type of streaming service, but it serves artists best - by far! almost any streamingservice is better than #spotify (musicradar.com/music-industry/β¦).
they are in the trumpgame as well: pitchfork.com/news/spotify-hosβ¦
Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony
Matthew Strauss (Pitchfork)william.maggos
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •@rolle
id rather everybody use matrix instead of signal
Vivian "Bigou"
in reply to william.maggos • • •Debacle
in reply to Vivian "Bigou" • • •@Bigou @rolle @wjmaggos
I'm on #Jabberο»Ώ/ο»Ώ#XMPP, Matrix, and IRC π
Thanks to bridges, I can use my Jabber client for all three:
#slidge for XMPP to Matrix
#biboumi for XMPP to IRC
(and #sms4you for XMPP to #SMS)
Signal is just another centralised, walled garden, just like #BS or "#Flashes". No thanks.
β β ΅ avuko
in reply to Debacle • • •@debacle @Bigou @rolle @wjmaggos
The idea behind moving as many people as possible to another platform with "good enough" privacy and security is to create a network effect.
The idea behind creating that network effect is to make it attractive for as many people as possible to be on a non-predatory platform.
Stating your personal, technologically privileged preferences countering this move, is not helping.
And if you aren't willing to help, please just be quiet. This isn't about you.
Debacle
in reply to β β ΅ avuko • • •@avuko @Bigou @rolle @wjmaggos
The idea behind moving as many people as possible to federated platforms with "good enough" #digitalSovereignty is to create a network effect.
The idea behind creating that network effect is to make it attractive for as many people as possible to be on non-walled-gardens.
Advertisting walled gardens on this free, federated network is not helping.
And if you aren't willing to help, you are free to express your opinion anyway. This is about all of us.
Debacle
in reply to Debacle • • •@avuko @Bigou @rolle @wjmaggos
Silencing critics of Signal or Threema or other walled gardens will hopefully not work well on the fediverse.
You are, of course, free to advertise whatever centralised US service you like, but esp. here on the fediverse, you have to deal with (good and bad) counter-arguments.
Esp. in the current political situation, advertising US services (here: Signal in the Amazon cloud) to EU citizens such as myself is not helpful.
β β ΅ avuko
in reply to Debacle • • •just small circles π
in reply to S π± L V I Ξ • • •thanks for your great initiative. π
Proudly putting #GlobalSwitchDay to practice..
social.coop/@smallcircles/1139β¦
just small circles π
2025-02-01 11:13:15