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I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it. (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a phone scroller and social media reader and a YouTube watcher. My phone and by extension my Google account are my mobile office. I regret having to buy an Apple Mac Mini but I am not giving up Logic as my DAW. I got away from overpriced Samsung devices a few years ago and have a fairly bloat-free Motorola. Now I want to dump the Google ecosystem. I intend to download all of my pics and files from Drive and the Google cloud. I am not so tech savvy that I can install APKs or switch to Linux, and I'd like to watch video streamers that aren't saturated in developer links (seriously, why do y'all do this?...just put one simple link to "Developer Info" or something and put all the other links there). I want to use and enjoy the net like any idiot would but without being The Product. I am Lemmy over Reddit (though you both ban me from subs with equal ferver); MeWe over Facebook (though MeWe is moving towards an unprivate model now); Mastodon over Xittstain. I have a ProtonMail account, but mainly for registrations...I have had a Gmail account since Earthlink took a nosedive.

What/who else is out there for me to frequent and replace all the corporatist models?in the past I tried Minds (all Nazis all the time!) and Ello (socmed for creative types, yet still looks like a shitty 1970's mimeographed zine). I also spent a couple of years at one called MyBetzCo that started out okay but died because none of the members would make public posts for interacting with others.

What do you recommend for private/decentralizwd clouds, socmeds or media sites?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The bad news is you'd have to learn more technology and pay more money. The good news is there are decent alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why pay more money?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Labor and infrastructure (also labor) costs money. If you're not paying for it with money, you're paying with something else. In other words you're the product. Since you can't build all of the needed infrastructure yourself, you'll have to pay at least for that. And so at the end of the day you will most likely have to pay more money. It's also possible for someone to be paying for the infrastructure you use. E.g. a small fraction of Lemmy users pay for the infrastructure and software everyone else uses. That only works as long as the ratios are sustainable. A more sustainable scenario is for a large fraction to be paying very little.