Fediverse Global Switch Day on 2025-02-01 and a few thoughts on my expierience entering it
I just read an a post on Mastodon with some welcome illustrations to promote the Global Switch Day on the first of Februrary 2025. There are a lot of Fediverse based alternatives for services that are by now heavily affected by enshittification. Here is a list of the replacable commercial platforms with their Fediverse alternative and (if you are interested), where I live on them. Plaform Fediverse Alternative My Home X/twitter/bsky/threads Mastodon @maub@23.social instagram Pixelfed @maub@pixey.org (barely used) reddit Lemmy @maub@slrpnk.net Facebook Diaspora jakap@nerdpol.ch WhatsApp Signal/Element(*) maub.23 / @maub:ccc-ffm.de (*) neither of those is officialy part of the Fediverse, but both offer reasonably secure e2e encrypted communication with no corporate interference to your privacy. ...