I feel I am even unable to follow current law projects against #encryption or #AgeVerification arguments. I am just tired, angry and annoyed with this crap. The most annoying thing is their lying about "protecting children"... all while everyone makes intentional effort to exploit the same children for own profit. And even if this part would be true... Why they have to choose one group to be safe and everyone else would have to deal with increasing #internet toxicity?
It's like they said "we made this area poisonus and radioactive and now we have to think about poor children affected by this. So let's verify everyone's identity to make sure they are mature enough to deal with radioactivity!"
And then "Oh, by the way, it could be convenient to mark dissidents' zones as harmful too..."

And even now they actively create more and more harmful things, embracing it and poison everything with it... also killing planet in the process.

I don't want to reveal my identity and don't want to deal with their radioactivity at all!

#BigTech #corpfree #capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #web #enshittification #ChatControl #OnlineSafetyAct

With Skype dying it looks like my friend groups that use it are willing to move to signal instead (even though all of them have WhatsApp already) this is excellent news, it'll shift the associated WhatsApp groups with it and those are the high traffic ones.

Be lovely to cave a few more groups that some of these folks are mutuals in and who knows might ultimately get shot of meta altogether.

#signal #skype #corpfree

When I saw more #degoogle - and other #BigTech detox guides everywhere, I started noticing one thing. It's sometimes mentioned there that users may have to slightly change their habits and this part could be difficult for some people. Or people who tried to be free but couldn't continue their normal workflows so were disappointed with alternatives and wrote about it.
For me it was always other way. I used programs and services in different way than expected and because of this I was not compatible with popular services. I had to fight against their default behavior to be able to use them. And I often didn't achieve what I wanted. Especially when I started using more strict #privacy settings in Firefox and corporate services started to see it as "unusual activity". I couldn't use them even if I wanted. I would be probably blocked or banned anyway.
Maybe it didn't automatically made me compatible with alternative services - but still much more compatible, when I finally could simply do my things instead of constant fighting. Things I did (or these I avoided doing) before I became privacy paranoid I did for purely practical reasons.
Maybe it's a problem with outlier when everthing is designed for average, most popular use cases.

#web #OnlineServices #corpfree

Last night I finally deleted my #LinkedIn account. It was last #BigTech owned service I used (and rarely even log in last two years).
So am I fully #corpfree now?  

It was also ethical matter for me, I didn't want to deal with #Microsoft, so morally bankrupt corporation, in any way. Both for data stealing, #privacy violations and disrespect for users and for compliance with authoritarian governments and creating #surveillance technologies for oppression.

Yes, I wrote this in form as a reason, in more detailed way, until I used character limit.

Now I feel... More coherent? And it's good feeling.

Sometimes people ask me how inconvenient is being a #privacy paranoid and avoiding spying corporate services. And of course they say they couldn't do the same, because they want convenience and everything Just Working™.
So for me being #corpfree isn't inconvenient itself. I don't even feel this. I didn't even feel it when I fully finished #degoogling.
But using #encryption is something I feel, when I have to repeat every step every time to access my stuff. And MFA - with not storing cookies and browser history it is real pain in the a**   

#security #surveillance #degoogle #BigTech

When I say I achieved almost #corpfree life, sometimes I feel like I cheat. Yes, I eliminated spy-services from my life, but I have my VPS with some #selfhosted apps and I could also use this as kind of relay and public always available point. Even if I don't use it as a storage itself, I don't have enough resources for this ​

So I basically replaced online services by my own, custom cloud-like system. But I cannot expect every non-tech person would host everything they need on their own. I cannot imagine my mother/grandma/aunt/one or another non-IT friend having their servers, constantly maintaining it - even if I still want them be free from #BigTech spying on them.

My journey of reclaiming freedom started when I already had my VPS. I don't know how many things I would do different if I didn't have it. Now I cannot say how much harder (if it would be that case) it would be without own #server.

Is there any easy way to be corpfree in modern technology world without becoming non-paid part-time #sysadmin during this process? Something available for non-tech people who also deserve freedom and privacy.

#admin #degoogle #selfhosting #cloud

When you are #corpfree some things are bitter-tiring-funny...

- We would have online meeting tomorrow.
- OK... What do you mean by "online"?
- Google Meet.
- Ehm, would be possible to join if someone doesn't have Google account?
- Of course, you shouldn't worry about this.
*long breath of relief*

It reminds me long time of my education life stage, when I didn't use Fa**book...