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The fascist noose is tightening the world over thanks to proprietary big tech. We have to escape now while we can to open-source alternatives.
Currently the best private (encrypted) and federated Discord alternative is Movim, which I highly recommend people switch to as soon as possible (the Dev is currently working on discord-like channels with rooms).
For a more complete guide to swapping proprietary apps for safe open-source ones, I suggest referring to this post: https://lemmy.cafe/post/18663514
While we still can.
And time is limited. Hardware restrictions are coming. It won’t be long until you have to jailbreak your PC to run anything other than MacOS or Windows (and jailbreak the OS if you want to install any software on those that isn’t from their approved app store or ‘digitally signed’ by them) … if it’s even possible to jailbreak – it will become a cat-and-mouse game between big tech trying to lock down your hardware and developers/hackers trying to find ways around their blocks.
Sure, you can keep using old hardware for a while … but things wear out and break eventually, and even the ones that are still working will become increasingly incompatible with more modern protocols and interfaces.
That’s when open hardware will get its day, just like open source is right now.
Anyone who does this is too dumb to live
What does this have to do with supporting european made products?
It works as a perfect example of one of the very real reasons to buy and use European products.
This gives you a very extremely absurdly huge reason to ditch an usian tech and find a safer european alternative.
