Tech won't save us

I love this quote. It has its origin most likely in the podcast by Parix Marx.

In the comment section on Republik for an article about Zuckerberg revealing his true intentions, I argued that its time to stop using the American tech.

The broligarchs and American tech imperialism get on my nerves.

To show better options, I provided a list with links. Here is the same list:

• Twitter(X)/Facebook -> Mastodon
• Whatsapp -> Signal or Threema or Element
• Instagram -> Pixelfed
• TikTok -> Loops
• Outlook/Gmail -> Infomaniak
• Google -> DuckDuckGo
• Microsoft -> Nextcloud
• Microsoft Teams -> Nextcloud Talk
• Google Maps -> OrganicMaps

Links for techies:

• GitLab/GitHub -> Forgejo
• ChatGPT -> Infomaniak
• Google Analytics -> Plausible
• Zoom -> BigBlueButton or Jitsi
• AWS -> Exoscale
• PowerBI -> Metabase
• Cloud Service -> Service in Kubernetes