GrapheneOS also has an official Bluesky account. Here’s a link to the same post except you don’t need to visit that nazi-bar website and don’t need to login: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3m6fm6vseik27

Someone just before you left a comment saying "[The best] Time to get off Twitter [was] when a Nazi bought it.

The second-best time is now.". (source: https://lemmy.zip/post/55517537/23499919)

I agree 100% with that comment. If someone leaves late yes we wish they would have left sooner but we can’t go back in time and change that so we must just be happy that they finally left.

I agree that Bluesky isn’t a “big tech platform”, it’s not as big as I wish it were but I do think currently it’s the largest competitor that’s at-least mostly ethical or far better than the big tech platforms. They recently hit a 41 million user milestone. How can platforms can you name with greater than that many users that is not part of what is commonly considered to be “big tech” (Meta, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok)?

Twitter is more egregious than even other big tech platforms and there are major competitors that don’t have these AI training terms of services like Bluesky.

Also some people are just slow to change or don’t get the news so we have to try everything we can.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. If even a tiny amount of people leave because of this it’s a win! Think about it like chipping away at a stone with a chisel and discarding the fragments. If you keep doing it enough one day the stone will be gone.

It is very ironic but I felt it was worded well so that’s why I posted it.

Got to make their money and involvement as toxic as possible. Republican candidates backed by their money need to be hurt more than helped by their spending.

Monkey’s paw: the AI is controlled by Russia and spreads even more disinformation than Joe Rogan does.

Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle. We really need a huge push to urge everyone to stop using TikTok.

Windows 11 is a bloated disaster. I urge everyone to switch to Linux or one of the BSDs.

Also switch away from Microsoft Office and use LibreOffice.

The more people that leave Reddit and get on Lemmy the better.

* runs after you as you exit the building

Sir, you forgot your /s.

Well then, time to shut down your Meta account if you still have one. Also do likewise for TikTok and Twitter.

Thank you so much for clarifying! Yes, now I understand it’s a powerful thought like they can’t stop me because I live in Sweden, I will keep protesting.

It reminds me of how many countries boycotted South Africa which helped end apartheid.

I posted it there! Before I was worried to post there because I didn’t see any recent posts.

I was just thinking, one way to start adding Oracle might be to create a Database section and mention Oracle’s database and perhaps other closed source/bad solutions like Access and suggest open source alternatives like PostgreSQL and MariaDB.

I don’t know where this would fit in on the website but one company that is really important to boycott is Oracle. Larry Ellison is a mega right-wing donor and his son is buying up media companies for the purposes of turning them into right-wing propaganda machines.

One way everyone can make a difference is by uninstalling any Oracle software on your computer. You might have the Oracle JRE installed or if you’re into virtualization you may be using Virtualbox. It’s especially important to avoid Oracle software in a corporate setting because their lawyers may come after you. If you work for a company and you’re either involved in purchasing software or a software developer I would strongly recommend avoiding Oracle not just because of ethical reasons but also because typically they have their products are not as good from a technical standpoint as well.

For the Oracle JRE or JDK you can replace it with Adoptium. Adoptium is run by the Eclipse Foundation which is based in the EU.

For Virtualbox you can replace it with QEMU or Xen. For QEMU there are a lot of good GUI or CLI front-ends that make using it easy. See this article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Front-ends note that some of the front-ends listing in that article also support Xen.

For Oracle’s database some say that PostgreSQL is a good competitor. For this one I acknowledge the topic is more complex. I’m just going to leave it at for new designs please consider avoiding Oracle’s database if you can. Oracle has a bad reputation among programmers for a reason.

Safari isn’t open source. They could in theory add a backdoor anytime and it would be more difficult to audit.

Right, I better not tell him about chat control.

You’re 100% right about this! I literally made my username BoycottTwitter so that whenever I post it hopefully reminds people that we still have a lot of work to do to get people to leave that nazi-bar “platform”.

I’ve got a few of my friends to leave Twitter and sign up for Bluesky, I hope everyone can consider contacting organizations/entities and people that are still on Twitter and urge them to switch.

We’re all in this together in a way, what becomes normalized in one country risks coming for you one day. Do you notice how other countries have Trump copycats? In fact Trump has learned a lot from Hungary. So when something bad happens in one country we must stand against it no matter where we are because sooner or later if we don’t it will come for us.