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.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    firefox lets you keep several search engines on hand

    right click the toolbar and select "Customize"

    if you add a designated search bar, it will let you add various search engines to the roster when you're on the webpage (the magnifying glass changes colour and gets a little plus+ symbol)

    you can start typing something in it and press TAB to cycle through which search to use

    I usually use https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://yandex.com/ though i also added stuff like ebay or the minecraft wiki for quick access as needed. I even keep google and bing on hand, just in case. https://www.jstor.org/ is good for academic journals, although it's paywalled (and i can't get firefox to recognize as an engine, oh well). Most schools and some library systems have contracts with it, so you may already have access.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      Jumping on the search engine reccomendation train, SearXNG is really good. I use etsi.me (not to be confused with etsy) as my instance of choice as it is both close enough to keep response times low and has good uptime.