https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ I don't know that it's all wonderful stuff, but it's always a good thing to have alternatives to choose from. Many of these offer some choices that would involve similar preference metrics to what we might like ..
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 18:38:48 -0400 Christopher Browne via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ I don't know that it's all wonderful stuff, but it's always a good thing to have alternatives to choose from. Many of these offer some choices that would involve similar preference metrics to what we might like ..
thank you for posting this, as a dogmatix fan, i truly enjoyed the intro :) Andre
On 2018-10-09 06:38 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
A whole bunch of these, such as Trello, aren't Google services. It also seems to be mostly a catalogue of services from one company. I'll be sad to see Google+ go, if only for the huge knowledge base built up there for my open source Reach 3D printer. The folks there know 3d printers and not data retention best-practice. At the time, Google+ seemed like it would stick around forever, right?¹ (a hollow voice intones "O R K U T ... W A V E ... R E A D E R ...") Stewart --- ¹: “If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.” - https://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#32560467
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:09:03 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: <snip>
I'll be sad to see Google+ go, if only for the huge knowledge base built up there for my open source Reach 3D printer. The folks there know 3d printers and not data retention best-practice. At the time, Google+ seemed like it would stick around forever, right?¹ (a hollow voice intones "O R K U T ... W A V E ... R E A D E R ...")
i learned many lessons the past 15 years, imnsho, Google has become quite evil, Microsoft is coming back stronger than before and as for the other 'top ten' Internet monsters, none of them are any good for society over the long term. The most important lesson for me, is that someone has to pay for something but that there are good ways and bad ways that things can be paid for. Huge aggressive and 'dominate the world' Internet companies use their dominance in one area to grow share in other areas. They are relentless, evil, underhanded and operate like the IRA (in cells) - some cells are truly "good" but the cells that matter are rotten to the core and in most/all cases the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. What I can do is to support small startup services, spread my own use as wide as possible, support small and also pay for and offer free services to the planet (which I am doing and supplying on an ongoing basis and quite anonymously and with zero expectation of even a thank you) Andre
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