Like the title says I am trying the boycott the US thing hard, so I have gotten rid of a lot of services. After my iPhone and iPad give out I will be looking into alternatives my homepods are going to need to find another forever home sooner or later.
Anywho that brings me to why I am posting here. A few months ago my place decided to flood and damage a lot of things I have just been hoarding! So I will get to start with a much cleaner slate of things, I get to decide what is coming back into my place and what is coming back or being replaced. It just really clicked for me that this was going to help me embrace this lifestyle some more.
I wanted to share it with the community on the book of Faces, but I do not use it anymore and I was not going to go through the effort to download the app sign in and mention it in the group I was in. Only to then decide to uninstall the app and not see any comments or anything. So I thought Lemmy, I already have a Lemmy account that I use why not post it here. I may not get the same dopamine hit but at least I will hopefully get some.
Tl:dr: Best way to clean out crap from your place is have you single floor suite flood, and Facebook is no good.
You're definitely doing it. And you're right, things are getting ripe for a FOSSolution Revolution. I was just curious about the dependency upon US software, and it seems like you are committed to finding your way through. At the heart, my interest in all of this (beyond my own digital privacy and freedom) is that, in my own opinion, a lot of dangerous things happening within the US (and elsewhere) and knowing the world is reacting is the ray of hope.
Don't get me wrong - I am a US Citizen, and I still love the land I live on. As misguided and morally questionable as the "Founding Fathers" appear in our times, I still believe in some of the notions they espoused, like Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I just don't know that those notions have any connection to what grew from that seed, at least for the main of the populace. Anyway, thanks for the reply, and best of luck to you. Hopefully, one day, We The People might be a real thing.
My first suggestion is stop paying for services, buy paying I do not mean with just money but with your eyeballs. Get a good whole home ad/tracker blocker, I started with pihole and have added add-on features to make things better from everything I have seen my current pihole setup is better than the basic Adguard Home setup many will say they switched from pihole to adguard home and it is better, but from all the reviews I have seen my setup is better than the basic adguard home setup. You do not need to go as extreme as I have with email, just get off of gmail and learn about email aliasing. I really plan on self hosting my own email stuff and blog in the not to distant future.
The masses are not yet ready to jump ship from big tech but it is coming.