Hi Steve, I've been in tech since before the web existed and think there is a misplaced emphasis on focusing on just a few providers. I liken it to having a 100 restaurants around but somehow everyone only knows of literally 1 restaurant. Or a plantation where there are no walls, keeping people in, no guards, the frontiers are big, huge and wide open, and yet.. because the master has provided all the shelter and food, no one wants to leave.
I recommend this non-comprehensive list by Reclaim the Net:
I will put in one caveat of mine for the above: strike Gettr off the list, due to some mounting evidence of selective censorious behaviour over the recent months. Minds might be the best in terms of all speech (not just political)
What's not included in that list since it's still Beta, but very promising, is Brave search (by the same makers as Brave browser, who was founded by the creator of Javascript, a founder of Netscape).
DDG, while much better than Google, is flawed and has gone down a bit from previous years. They rely primarily on Bing for news and stopped including Bitchute for video results for example. Yandex is actually quite good for some things (not everything), which you can get to via the !ya shortcut in DDG.
among newsletters or mailing list services, let me advocate using mkis.io over the popular mailchimp, since mailchimp is among the bigtech censors. See their statement:
There's also a myriad of user forums and Reddit alternatives that is less censorious than Reddit, but those are too numerous to list. But in terms of anti-fragility and robustness in the face of pressure, IMO the future belongs to decentralized services. Among those above is Odysee (LBRY blockchain) and DTube, and Hive and partially, Minds.
It's one of the reasons why the Brave browser also implements IPFS into the browser to host and share content in a P2P manner.
The Green Fields Of Death - Compiled
Video Of Athlete Heart Attacks
(discretion advised)
When do we halt this killer vax program?
https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/the-green-fields-of-death-?r=3vm3f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Hi Steve, I've been in tech since before the web existed and think there is a misplaced emphasis on focusing on just a few providers. I liken it to having a 100 restaurants around but somehow everyone only knows of literally 1 restaurant. Or a plantation where there are no walls, keeping people in, no guards, the frontiers are big, huge and wide open, and yet.. because the master has provided all the shelter and food, no one wants to leave.
I recommend this non-comprehensive list by Reclaim the Net:
https://reclaimthenet.org/private-search-engines/
https://reclaimthenet.org/free-speech-friendly-video-sharing-platforms/
https://reclaimthenet.org/free-speech-friendly-and-privacy-focused-social-networks/
https://reclaimthenet.org/free-speech-friendly-discord-alternatives/
https://reclaimthenet.org/private-and-encrypted-cloud-storage-providers/
https://reclaimthenet.org/private-messaging-apps/
https://reclaimthenet.org/private-email-providers/
I will put in one caveat of mine for the above: strike Gettr off the list, due to some mounting evidence of selective censorious behaviour over the recent months. Minds might be the best in terms of all speech (not just political)
What's not included in that list since it's still Beta, but very promising, is Brave search (by the same makers as Brave browser, who was founded by the creator of Javascript, a founder of Netscape).
https://search.brave.com/
DDG, while much better than Google, is flawed and has gone down a bit from previous years. They rely primarily on Bing for news and stopped including Bitchute for video results for example. Yandex is actually quite good for some things (not everything), which you can get to via the !ya shortcut in DDG.
among newsletters or mailing list services, let me advocate using mkis.io over the popular mailchimp, since mailchimp is among the bigtech censors. See their statement:
https://mkis.io/commitment/
There's also a myriad of user forums and Reddit alternatives that is less censorious than Reddit, but those are too numerous to list. But in terms of anti-fragility and robustness in the face of pressure, IMO the future belongs to decentralized services. Among those above is Odysee (LBRY blockchain) and DTube, and Hive and partially, Minds.
It's one of the reasons why the Brave browser also implements IPFS into the browser to host and share content in a P2P manner.
I'll also mention https://unstoppabledomains.com/ to get around censorious DNS registrar problems
They all for now, trade off ease of use for security however.
I have not seen a LinkedIn alternative i.e. a professional, career focused social networking site, however.