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None ;)

I used to use Reddit. I now use Lemmy. That's it.

To be clear, I do own accounts on many other platforms, including Mastodon, as a way to keep those handles under my hand. I simply don't use them and see little reason to start using them.

My stance on that question is that it's up to anyone to make up their own mind. And act accordingly.

Personally, I don't believe much in resisting USA technological and cultural quasi-monopoly simply by not paying for the US tools and services. Or for the stuff I read, watch, listen to.

One just needs to look how massive piracy ended up not hurting Microsoft or Adobe in the slightest. If you're too young to have experienced those early times it was a quasi norm, at least outside the USA, to not pay for Microsoft Office and for Windows, or for Adobe Photoshop, and that was true for the penniless student up to more than a few enterprises. Adobe and MS are still the undisputed leaders and they earn mountains of money. The same goes for movie studios who, in my opinion, have never produced so many turd content that also has never cost so much to produce).

So, yeah, so much for 'resisting by pirating', imho.

Also, I think any creator (even big ones) deserves to get paid for their work if I'm wanting to enjoy it or to use it. But here again that's just me, and I can afford it.

Instead, I prefer trying to focus my limited time and limited resources on local EU tools or at least Free and Libre tools, and on reading non-US authors whenever I can. I say reading because first and foremost I'm a reader but that stands true for watching and listening to stuff too.

I will simply favor EU or non-US alternatives whenever I can as I also don't want to forbid myself the possibility to enjoy US production. Because why would I want to do such a thing? Despite all their flaws, they have an amazing scientific, intellectual and art production that I can only admire—I don't care how unpopular it has become to appreciate it nowadays.

So, I resist US dominance by using and consuming as much non-us tools and content as I can. And by favoring non-us alternatives when it’s not completely moronic to do so.

To my own surprise, I recently realized it was not just the tools I was using or what I was reading (watching, and so on) that was impacted but also what I was doing and creating myself. After years not worrying at all about my native language, I'm witnessing myself blogging in French more. And it's not just my blog, which is a tiny part of what I write it's all the other stuff I write too.

I see that as a rekindled passion and love for my own culture.

Le support ne m’a pas encore répondu, je les ai contacté il y a 3 semaines.

Si j'étais toi, je les relancerais gentiment car il me semble que tu es effectivement censé avoir accès à ces 10 emails ;)

Merci pour ce retour.

La formule ksuite entreprise annonce que je peux créer 10 adresses mails, mais lorsque je suis dans le manager Infomaniak, je vois que j’ai un cota d’une seule adresse mail. Je ne peux donc pas avoir comme sur O2SWITCH une adresse mail de contact. C’est dommage.

Question (probablement) bête : as-tu contacté leur support, pour leur demander ce qu'il était possible de faire exactement?

Pour info, je m'étais aussi intéressé à leurs diverses offres, que je trouvais également franchement confuses (y compris avec leur suite bureautique). C'était il y a environ un an de ça et le support sétait montré très réactif et informatif. S'ils avaient proposé un drive/cloud nativement chiffré de bout en bout je n'ai aucun doute que je serais allé chez eux juste pour me simplifier la vie.

Voilà ! Maintenant plus de Google

Congrats :)

Et aussi: +1 pour garder ton compte, même dormant. C'est plus prudent même après un délai de transition raisonnable.

J'ai gardé tous mes comptes chez les GAFAM et/ou sur les machins sociaux alors même que je n'y touche plus, depuis des années pour certains. Lorsqu'il y a une merde, genre lorsque quelqu'un essaye de récupérer un de mes vieux comptes, j'ai toujours la main dessus ce qui évite de potentielles mauvaises surprises (et, oui, ça arrive de temps en temps). La seule contrainte c'est que je m'y connecte une fois par an, tous les 2 ans max, pour m'assurer de ne pas lesperdre faute d'activité. Pour les comptes gratuits du moins (pour ceux où j'ai payé, même une seule fois, j'ai pas encore reçu d'alerte m'annonçant qu'un compte serait fermé).

De quelle année? J'demande pour un ami.

100% this.

However, not everything is lost at this point.

I won't lose much myself as I don't use Edge (and I'd rather not browse the web at all than be forced to look at ads) but it's clear there is a worrysome acceleration in the vanishing of the little control we have over the Internet and the way we are allowed to experience it.

I would have liked to use it (it's French, like me ;) but since they sell ads and I refuse to see ads (and I'd rather not see my data being collected in order to sell ads)... I don't use them.

Congrats and welcome!

:)

I can't tell the future. So, I don't have a list of what will edited/censored tomorrow ;)

I don't have a list of what have been edited either, sorry. Out of my mind, I think I can recall a few.

Most of us have at least heard about Amazon deleting t one edition of the '1984' novel from some of their customers device (one doesn't make that up—if you don't know what that book is about, it tells the story of fascist-like society in which the main characters works at the Truth Ministry, or something like that, and is charged with editing newspapers clips and change them (remove faces from pictures and change the text of the articles) so they always fit whatever the new and constantly changing narrative of that government is. I would encourage anyone to read it, as well as Huxley's 'Brave New World' which is at least as interesting as a way to question our own society).

But it should be really easy to find (many) other occurrences. Some about books or movies or series that were edited or completely suppressed because they're considered offensive to some audience, others because they're considered unhealthy (like removing the cigarette they were smoking, from some character's mouth). Others because the publisher did not like something in it or because the author wanted to—try to find a recent edition of the first trilogy of Star Wars without the added extra scenes Lucas so much wanted to put in.

And then there are the endless list of books, movies, series (and probably music too) that are not streamed at all or not re-printed. Either because they're not considered worth it, or because someone is afraid of the audience's reaction.

I won't list the one I have I can remember because I know very well some people are only waiting for that kind of excuse to jump in the conversation, without any other desire than to get offended and to create some polemic.

In any case, I consider the ever rising call to censorship, no matter the motivation, a good reason to own a copy of whatever I want to be able to read, listen to or watch, no matter what anyone could think about it.

And for all the content for which there is no print, DVD or CD available, no physical media at all, well, too bad for them I suppose because... they won't get my money. Simple as that. I already have access to enough offline/physical content to last me more than the time I have left to live, and I really don't think I will lose much by not being able to read the latest best-sellers, or watch the latest series or movies.

If it's encrypted and if it's not stored in clear anywhere, no.

That said, the moment encryption will be forced (by law) to include backdoors the question won't be if they will read our messages (and everything else we used ton consider private mater), but when.