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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23812665

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35236593

I feel like a version of this guide gets reposted weekly, but it's always out of date.

u/theFallenWalnut over on that other site updates these regularly.

They also now link to !purchasewithpurpose@lemmy.world but I don't see anything posted there. Maybe a better place to start reposting these

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[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love how the alternative to American chatting apps is yet another centralized American chatting app running on a plethora of American services from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare etc. And based on phone numbers where they can easily cut down comms for Europeans at any given time the US gives the orders

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[โ€“] 01011@monero.town 1 points 1 week ago

No threema? Matrix?

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Tidal is owned by Block Inc, listed in the US, founded and run by Jack Dorsey, formerly of Twitter.

[โ€“] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Libby doesn't seem to be a thing outside of NA, I just can't find any libraries that support it

[โ€“] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Working it Austria at least, but of course more limited supply. Would love to find a good Audio Book Service which is not Audible. :(

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Librivox? Admittedly, only public domain books. https://librivox.org/

[โ€“] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Librivox is pretty nice, although quality varies a lot. But I'm very grateful it exists.

[โ€“] SexDwarf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Humanius@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a specific reason why Spotify is not suggested as an alternative to YouTube Music and Apple Music?
To my knowledge they are a Swedish company.

[โ€“] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] saimen@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but still I rather use a company like spotify than companies from a fascist country. And spotify replaced youtube for me which I lately mainly used to watch veritasium which is now also available on spotify (even without the in-video ads).

[โ€“] Humanius@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Wait.. Since when does Spotify host video content?

[โ€“] saimen@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

I had the same reaction. But apparently it does. I guess because they realized there is no real alternative to youtube.

[โ€“] Nalivai@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't proton owner actively and very publicly supporting US republicans?