So, I swapped to SoundCloud from any other platform, because other platfroms suck and on SoundCloud I get more art made by humans rather than corporate slop, or at least that’s my goal. I’m not big on music, so I’m fresh in the platform, but it’s easier for me to find anything new than it was before, and I hate the “same old”.
I also got Droidify to replace the apps I can with non-corporate, as Google started pushing their ads in all the default apps they provide (I wish that was illegal - fuck the fucking ads in the gallery app).
I wanted to delete Linkedin, but I found myself forced to use it, as I am job seeking, and it’s sadly the best platform for job offers (still bad, but job websites are fucking terrible). I wish it had an option to opt out of the social media part.
I moved to Proton, but that was a while ago. Outlook and Gmail suck.
I also swapped to Firefox a while ago after using Vivaldi, because fuck Google.
I am personally not a privacy oriented person, but the way big corpos are moving to major enshittification due to acknowledging own market domination is stark. I also don’t like corpo slop (e.g. music), so I appreciate being able to find man-made art.
And on that topic, I abadonned Google search for Ecosia, because fuck Google’s AI bullshit.
My de-corpoing is a very loosely applied term, as you see.
Oh, and obviously I abadonned Reddit a while ago.
Temu is cool. Amazon does shit ton of drop shipping from Asian stores at extortionate prices. Temu makes repairing my apartment affordable.
I think so too. It’s the same stuff that Amazon sells literally, but a lot more affordable and also better delivery options, a lot cheaper. I also prefer the money going to the sellers who make this stuff in China rather than to Amazon, but not sure how fair Temu is to their sellers as they too aren’t all that transparent about it. But looking at the moral panic it is causing in the West I will buy from there if just out of spite. Buying my plant pots straight(er) from the commies does make me feel better, misplaced as that may be.
With Amazon, even if Temu isn’t fair to the sellers, Amazon is doing the same while turning profit for the western oligarchs, so I still 100% think choosing the Chinese services is the morally better choice. It never even crossed my mind to buy plant pots there. But I won’t have housing for much longer, so I’m only buying cleaning and renovation supplies atm to try to get as much deposit back as possible. ^ ^’