Submitted 12 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
What is the opinion on Vivaldi here as an alternative? I am using Firefox and Zen currently. But I wouldn’t mind jumping towards a European alternative.
I’m using Vivaldi and I really like it. The way I can group tabs into workspaces is really nicefor example.
Personally I would days away from any chromium-based browser, if only on principle.
Zen is great and keeps getting better, if anyone tried it some time ago and had stability problems, chances are your experience would be much better now.
Why doesn’t it mention the Fediverse at all???
Seems like they’re advocating using a Fairphone running e/OS, Ecosia as the search engine, LibreWolf as the browser, LibreOffice as the office package, and W for social media?
The steady exodus from Elon Musk’s X has benefited smaller, independent alternatives such as … German-developed Mastodon
Yeah, that was my main criticism of the article, it completely omitted social media.
Also, the author mentions Codeberg as the “developer” of Librewolf, so it seems is not the most tech savvy around.
Huh, I wouldn’t say, the article mentioned Codeberg as the developer of Librewolf.
It says:
An even more private (but still free and equally effective) version of Firefox is LibreWolf, which was developed on Codeberg, a German nonprofit.
To be honest this sentence doesn’t make any sense at all: Librewolf wasn’t developed, it is in active development. But it is true that it’s being developed on Codeberg, which still doesn’t convey a lot of information to the reader… I dont know if this article is very helpful at all…
There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others
And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)
Someone once said “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good” … or something like that.
Anyway, my point is it’s good that this kind of stuff is starting to get into mainstream media, even if they don’t go into as much detail as they could.
They might not have wanted to scare people off by giving them too much information all at once, especially things like the Fediverse which even lots of tech savvy people don’t really understand.
curiously, he didn’t mention linux as well
Step one to moving to Linux should be switching to open source alternatives to the proprietary software you use while you are still on windows. If all the programs you use are already open source, then switching to Linux is so much easier.
Maybe the author doesn’t know the fediverse yet. We could try commenting there or maybe contacting him
First thing I saw was “Subscribe via Google”
They left out framapad.org/abc/en/
I indeed had never heard of it, but now I have! I looks like a great suit of tools!
What’s your experience using it?
Cookie-walled article.
Script extension blocks them all on firefox.
i knew it wasn’t gonna mention the fediverse
krimson@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Don’t forget to ditch Google and Apple pay as well.