So, I swapped to SoundCloud from any other platform, because other platfroms suck and on SoundCloud I get more art made by humans rather than corporate slop, or at least that’s my goal. I’m not big on music, so I’m fresh in the platform, but it’s easier for me to find anything new than it was before, and I hate the “same old”.

I also got Droidify to replace the apps I can with non-corporate, as Google started pushing their ads in all the default apps they provide (I wish that was illegal - fuck the fucking ads in the gallery app).

I wanted to delete Linkedin, but I found myself forced to use it, as I am job seeking, and it’s sadly the best platform for job offers (still bad, but job websites are fucking terrible). I wish it had an option to opt out of the social media part.

I moved to Proton, but that was a while ago. Outlook and Gmail suck.

I also swapped to Firefox a while ago after using Vivaldi, because fuck Google.

I am personally not a privacy oriented person, but the way big corpos are moving to major enshittification due to acknowledging own market domination is stark. I also don’t like corpo slop (e.g. music), so I appreciate being able to find man-made art.

And on that topic, I abadonned Google search for Ecosia, because fuck Google’s AI bullshit.

My de-corpoing is a very loosely applied term, as you see.

Oh, and obviously I abadonned Reddit a while ago.

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I’ve finally figured out how to self host without fucking up bigly and have been taking advantage of that. So far I’'m hosting photoprism for image and video cloud storage, vaultwarden for passwords and TOTPs, and syncthing (technically doesn’t need to be self hosted as it is peer to peer, but hosting it makes it so there’s a node always accessible to my other computers).

    I also recently flashed CR Droid onto my phone to replace the stock android OS on there. I fucked up during the process and accidentally bricked my phone, but I figured out how to unbrick it and now it’s fine.

    I tried to get my friends to move from GroupMe to a matrix server I set up but they refuse.

    • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I convinced some people to switch to matrix but it was a massive issue because the way it handles keys is insane. Now I have lost my credibility so far as suggesting software alternatives is concerned.