After today's announcement by Apple in the UK and with the way data security is headed here in the States, I'm creating a "
#deshittification to-do list" to remove services from my life that were once useful and may have even initially been founded with the best of intentions. The services on this growing list have now frankly and simply, gone to sh!t due to the childish insecurity, fear, and greed of either their founding fathers or current operating administrations.
- Amazon Prime
- Google Apps
- Microsoft O365
- iCloud
As
@pluralistic has taught us,
#enshittificaton has made it harder due to switching costs that not only involves convincing our friends and family to move to federated and more ethical platforms, but in the time and even money it takes to move data, configure self-hosted solutions, and even decide whether anything that we don't directly control is trustworthy of our data and its associated metadata.
"Ethical" "do no harm" mission statements burned me once. I won't get fooled again.