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Well, I left reddit and now I am here.
Well done! Rather donate some money to your instance, instead of paying with your data.
I just moved as well.
I payed for a third party app to browse Reddit. Immediately after moving I ended that and started a recurring payment to piefed and summit for a little bit more in total.
Me too! Hello!
Me too I didn’t know there was a Reddit alternative, so I was using RSS feeds—then someone mentioned Lemmy in a comment, so here I am. Now I just need to wipe out Visa, and my boycott will be complete
I bought a pair of Mustangs (German brand) instead of buying new Converses, and I’m very pleased by them.
A small win, but still a win.
Not as admirable but for the last year or so I have, when necessary, replaced my Nike sports gear with Adidas.
I mention it ready for someone to say they’re American also :)
Bit by bit moving everything off Google Docs and into CryptPad.
I ditched Gmail for protonmail
Switched from Tidal to Qobuz.
Left Amazon a while ago, which is a big win.
But for special items, I kept ebay. It’s funny though, that some deliveries from ebay came with an Amazon packaging…
With Wero I hope, I can ditch Paypal soon.
Lots of people put up the same products on every available marketplace, and they fulfill their orders with Amazon because it’s easier to ship everything Fulfilled By Amazon.
You buy on ebay, they buy from themselves on Amazon and drop ship it to you via FBA.
That’s what I thought. So basically I’m still using 1% Amazon…:(
Unfortunately if you’re buying from any marketplace, there’s always a chance the seller is managing it from Amazon.
If it’s a small seller with only a couple items, there’s a better chance to avoid Amazon compared to bigger sellers selling many items.
I buy from onbuy, where possible, instead of ebay. Or direct from the selling company if I cab find it.
Setup koofr on my gf’s laptop recently so that we can use that for sharing documents
I just installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.
Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn’t use any applications for which there isn’t a reliable Linux alternative anyway.
Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.
Tbh: while I try to use/buy European products where I can, sometimes it’s not practical (for lack of European manufacturers in a certain sector) or can’t be attributed properly (because some products, such as free software, do not have a fixed “origin”). A lot of what I do can be more broadly described as “flipping off fascism”, i.e. adopting products that are produced in democracies or compatible with democratic values.
Given this broad definition, here’s a brief run-down of my 2025:
- immediate termination of Amazon account in early '25 and switch to Galaxus (Swiss), among other European online shops.
- bought Toshiba HDDs (JP) instead of my usual WDs and Seagates (both U.S.)
- switched about a dozen people and a company over to Linux (Mint)
- expanded homelab services to allow others to ditch big tech offers.
- growing determination and courage in others to switch away from harmful and/or hostile services, leading to the termination of several paid big tech subscriptions.
Just set up a mailbox account.
Before this it was probably some plus12 socks.
I am migrating my data from onedrive to nextcloud.
bought a secrid wallet (Netherlands) and a silpat oven sheet (France) very pleased with both
wait, Secrid is Dutch?
Just an hour ago I created a Proton account and transferred and redirected my gmail to it.
This is going to be a loong process transferring our family drive over. And I’m sure there will be some change resistance inside the family.
I dropped:
- 1password
- NordVPN
- Gmail
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Claude
And replaced all of them with a Proton family subscription. Amazing change tbh, highly recommend it.
Only problem that i have with proton is that i dont wanna bet on 1 horse alone in case anything happens
Exactly, it gives them too much market power. The problem with big American tech is not that it’s American. It’s that it has too much market power preventing competition - also through law. So the solution is not to repeat the same mistake in Europe.
Dropped Google drive in favour of Filen
