Moving away from mass surveillance applications and services
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This is a work in progress and a long personal journey. I will update this post as long as I move away from propietary and/or mass surveillance applications and services.
This post will probably not be useful to you, or you may not even read it. But I want to document the journey away from proprietary and mass surveillance applications, services and platforms (e.g. those offered for free by Google, Twitter/X, Microsoft, etc.) towards more privacy-friendly and community-driven alternatives, based on free and open source software whenever possible.
Now social networks have been invaded by hordes of phanatical trolls (some of which are actually owned by real trolls) and have lost their original meaning (i.e. social), becoming a boring and disgusting place that maximises the worst kind of behaviour. Our privacy (and well-being) is at risk whenever we interact with (and feed) these systems.
This is a personal choice to be consistent with my thinking and value system, which may have some shady areas (i.e. software that cannot be easily replaced).
Email provider
Although I was still using an old GMail account for some personal email, long time ago switched to Migadu as email provider. Best decision ever.
Personal server [02-09-2024]
In order to be able to do this and regain some freedom, I have set up a personal server, based on a Raspberry Pi 4 with the Devuan GNU+Linux as operating system in order to remain free of SystemD. This page and the aloga.me domain (among others) is statlically served from it.
Skype [25-09-2024]
I used Skype in the past, as some colleagues were using it, but I am no longer using Skype as a means of communication. If you want to contact me for an video/audio conference, there are much better alternatives. If you want to have a chat with me, I would reccomend that you switch to Signal.
To be continued...