im fortunate here in australia my friends and family use telegram with me, i use signal but it’s so utterly basic no one else liked it, also there was a bug where the desktop app would spam people you’re talking to a million times a second causing your friends phone to damn near explode, that was embarrassing :/

there are some it guys who do use signal but we’re a tiny minority but as telegram is my main messenger i don’t use meta at all

google on the other hand, there is no alternative to google maps (reviews and easily findable opening hours) or youtube

i currently have an iphone xs but my next phone will be https://murena.com/

so that’ll remove apple

then that’s about it, until a european CPU and GPU that isn’t amd/intel/nvidia comes along or until dailymotion suddenly leaps forwards in video content or ecosia creates their own maps ive gone as far as i can

if you were american ? forums and websites all over the world thrived and then smartphones came out and a combination of reddit and social media killed it

who could have seen this coming? oh right me

This is literally capitalism, if you do something people don’t like they are free to choose a product where they get what they want

In a democracy outside of voting money is your biggest weapon to change