ploumMay 30, 2024

Leave Google now and help others doing the same by:

1. Switching #Duckduckgo or #Kagi (using !g if Google is really needed)

2. Creating an email account on one of the many ethical alternative while asking gmail to redirect all email received.

3. Trying @organicmaps and adding your business information on OpenStreetMaps (opening hours, etc)

4. Creating a @peertube account on an instance and uploading your videos there

All those steps can be achieved by yourself, alone!

#degoogle

Show threadJonas
@ploum @organicmaps @peertube
To 1. another Search alternative is #Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/) with a sustainable benefit

To 4. if you can't stop watching YT videos, you should enter via a Piped instance (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances)

The Add-On #libredirect can help.

5. Exit Android and install #e/os @e_mydata
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

May 30, 2024 at 5:47pmWeb
Show threadploumMay 31, 2024

@Jonas @e_mydata @peertube @organicmaps : Ecosia is pure greenwashing bullshit.

They should be avoided at all cost, their model is to display advertisement to pay someone to give them a "planting tree certificate".

It has been demonstrated multiple times that this is worse than doing nothing. Because how do you make those certificate?

You burn a forest then you plant "paper making trees" on top of them.

I thought Ecosia was simply dumb. It seems that they are "bond-vilainesque".

Show threadJonasMay 31, 2024
@ploum @e_mydata @peertube @organicmaps

You are obviously ill-informed or have fallen for false information. Ecosia is the complete opposite. Surely they use money raised through advertising. Where else would the money come from? But Ecosia plants trees with massive positive impact and does not sell certificates.

Ecosia works with scientific institutes to achieve the best effect (for example my university). And you don't have to burn down forests to plant new ones. Haven't you noticed how much forest area has been lost in the last 100 years?

Ecosia is the most effective search engine against greenwashing, as it explicitly identifies companies that profit from fossil fuels. What's more, Ecosia has developed a new legal form to ensure that no company profits can be distributed to investors. Everything goes back into the company or the tree planting and protection projects. Ecosia is also trying to stand up to the big logging companies and buy the forest away from them, with mediocre success.

As a private individual, you can of course also donate directly and then receive a donation receipt stating how much you have replanted or protected with your money. However, you cannot use this as proof of CO2 certificates to give your company a sustainable image.

Again, Ecosia plants and protects forests, they have nothing to do with certificates.
Show threadploumMay 31, 2024
@Jonas @e_mydata @peertube @organicmaps : thanks for this contradiction, I will need to research the subject a bit more.
Show threadJonasMay 31, 2024
@ploum @e_mydata @peertube @organicmaps

Perhaps this blog post will help.

https://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2020/09/27/ecosia-the-search-engine-for-a-sustainable-future/

And for more scientific input, you can find a few papers on Researchgate. Unfortunately, not all of them are freely accessible.

https://www.researchgate.net/search/publication?q=ecosia

Or you can take a look at what Ecosia says about itself. Via their YT channel, here is the of course piped link.

https://yt.frei.chat/channel/UC1_up347GdfKBDVGqwjt7Aw
Ecosia, the search engine for a sustainable future

What is it ? And why is this so cool ?  Ecosia is a search engine, created by the German entrepreneur Christian Kroll in 2009 and was subsequently nominated the first B Corporation of the country. …

Masters of Media