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@Tutanota@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

🎉 Big Tech alternatives are finally getting mainstream media attention! 🎉

Yesterday, The Guardian published a piece on how people and organizations can leave Big Tech behind and choose ethical, privacy-focused alternatives, a topic we’ve been passionate about at Tuta for a long time. 🙌🔐

Thank-you to Steve Rose for mentioning Tuta. It’s great to see privacy-first solutions getting recognition. 🙏

👉 Read the article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/how-to-replace-amazon-google-x-meta-apple-alternatives

#TechAlternatives #DigitalSovereignty

Screenshot of an article written by Steve Rose for The Guardian titled : Leave Big Tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple - and more.
Screenshot of an article written by Steve Rose for The Guardian titled : Leave Big Tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple - and more.
Screenshot of an article written by Steve Rose for The Guardian titled : Leave Big Tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple - and more.
the Guardian

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
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@Pouakai@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota
They mentioned @protonprivacy Proton, @Tutanota , @Fairphone Fairphone, @ecosia , and more.

However, I didn't think @MistralAI good enough to dive in.
Mistral Le Chat uses Cloudflare, an US CDN tech sitting in between users and Mistral.
That is, Cloudflare can see our traffic, and Mistral has huge dependency on US big tech.
Unless this is solved, their app isn't quite 'EU' literally.

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@patrickleavy@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Tutanota great news! and perfect with our Big Tech Walkout full programme. Check it out here:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/

The Rebel Blog

The Big Tech Walkout 2026

Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Tutanota yes the article was great EXCEPT for the section on social media that included so many travesties:

"A promising new contender is W, a 100% European platform (but nothing to do with the EU, as conspiracy theorists have claimed)."

Where do I start?

1) W Social is a fork of ATProto (aka Bluesky, something that the writer dismissed).

2) "Conspiracy Theorists"? Well, Euronews was the first to fact check with the European Commission, which denied any involvement.

Do better Steve Rose

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Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈
Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈
@bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@_elena @Tutanota I read that as “conspiracy theorists claim it os linked to the EU, but it is not”

(My job involves parsing unclear writing lol)

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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@bougiewonderland thank you!

It just made it sound so ominous... as soon as someone writes "conspiracy theorists" whatever follows loses all credibility in my eyes. Especially if it's not backed by actual claims - who are the conspiracy theorists? Links? I find the article - in this section - poorly written

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Λευτέρης Τ.
Λευτέρης Τ.
@lefteristrip23@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@_elena @Tutanota it was a good article but #fediverse deserves more attention than a simple mention of Mastodon. Also I don't like the name "W" xd.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@lefteristrip23 simple mention and no hyperlink to https://joinmastodon.org - bad reporter!

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Λευτέρης Τ.
Λευτέρης Τ.
@lefteristrip23@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@_elena exactly! And no mention about Lemmy or pixelfed ( even tho it's not eu)

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@gwentlarry@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Tutanota

It doesn't mention search engines at all which I consider one of the most invidious big tech tools - tracking, biasing, advertising …

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unhitched
@unhitched@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Tutanota „Berlin-based Tuta“ i thought you are from Hannover?

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@unhitched We are! They got it wrong.

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@brainsuxx666@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Tutanota I would really like to use Fairphone...but not for almost 600 euros...just way too much :(

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