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Nice guide that was posted on that other site.

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know you did not make this guide, but here are some corrections and more stuff:

Browsers:

  • LibreWolf is a good private browser.

Search Engines:

  • There should be markers for Bing and Google index-based search engines.
  • Mojeek is a sustainable, private, non-US search engine, that has its own search index.

E-mail:

  • Proton Mail has a scandal involving one of the founders saying pro-Trump things through their official Twitter account.
  • Tuta and Proton Mail have very good free tiers, you likely won't need to pay at all.

Social Media:

  • It is Mastodon, not Mastadon.
  • Akkoma is better than Mastodon, it has 10 times the character limit, and pledges to be sustainable, AFAIK. It's fully interoperable with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse, too.
  • Threads is also a microblogging platform that should be replaced.

Edit: The browser stuff is covered in another part of the guide. My bad!

[–] vegantichrist@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

Outside of Spotify, these are great recommendations.

[–] goldfish_brain@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

How can Spotify possibly be better than Apple Music? I mean this earnestly.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

TIL it's not American

With the Joe Rogan issues, I'd put it on the other side of this infographic

[–] RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 14 hours ago

I agree, Spotify is predatory and has pretty bad rates for artists. It should get lumped in with Google and Apple.

[–] nick@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago

+1, explain yourself op

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee -4 points 19 hours ago

its not apple. that alone makes it infinitely better.

[–] uwu@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago

Signal should have the privacy marker as well, its currently the safest way to communicate that doesn't involve one time pads or offline gpg keys

[–] LodeMike 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Spotify is a US company, no matter how they tax evade.

[–] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 0 points 13 hours ago

lol tells you to join Reddit…