If you're just now realising that billionaires owning your online accounts and data, maybe you'll be happy to know of open source, distributed alternatives to these services:
Facebook ➡️ diaspora or Friendica
(Friendica is part of the #fediverse, ie. federates with Mastodon)
Instagram ➡️ Pixelfed (part of the fediverse)
YouTube ➡️ Peertube (part of the fediverse)
Google apps (docs/calendar/contacts) ➡️ Nextcloud (can integrate with the fediverse via plug-in)
WhatsApp/Telegram ➡️ Matrix or Tox or Session
(No, not Signal. Its users are locked in to centralised servers)
Medium ➡️ Writefreely or Plume (both fediverse)
Let me know if I forgot something you might want replaced!
Oh yeah, I forgot:
Linktr.ee ➡️ A fucking HTML bullet list of links. THAT'S IT.
cc @huertanix
https://cybre.space/@huertanix/108210356097080884.
@haverholm I'm happy that I'm not the only one who sees that. In my day, we made our own linktree in notepad! *yells at cloud*
@infonauten @haverholm One day someone has to make a four yorkshiremen with tech people. 😂
@saederup @haverholm "NOTEPAD??! That's luxury. We waved a floppy disc at the sun during periods of increased solar activity. Get the angle right, and you'd end up with a proper bullet list, links and all."
@infonauten @saederup "Gen Xers cry for their lost blink tag! We had to sit around the fire and blink our eyes!"
@haverholm @saederup "<head>? <body>? We used to use our own head and bodies as structure for our files"
@infonauten @saederup "We called it a "footer" because we were too dumb to know the plural of foot!"
@haverholm @saederup The plural hadn't been invented yet!
@infonauten @saederup "It wasn't CSS back then, it was just C"
I was a bit eager to get to my point there: "that billionaires owning your on lines accounts and data are a terrible idea", obviously.