#bigtexit — Public Fediverse posts

If devices powered by Big Tech came with warning labels, would we pause before unlocking them?
What we call convenience is often engineered dependency.
Addiction. Manipulation. Data extraction. All embedded in the products and platforms we use.

We’ve been here before. Just not with our "smart" devices.

I wrote a piece exploring why Big Tech might be the Big Tobacco of our era and why it’s time we taking action against the harm.

https://mangotek.eu/posts/big-tobacco-of-our-era/

#bigtexit #privacy #opensource

Great session about Exiting BigTech at the #PubConf2025 with @geertjan from @PublicSpaces, @sander from @waag, Slawek from @displayeurope @mbzita and Matthias from council for European Public Sphere, Vladimir from CMFE, the @PrototypeFund, @europeana and several other interesting parties.

https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/roundtable-big-techxit

#eXit #BigTeXit #digitalcommons #transition #sovereignty

Next step in BigTech liberation done. After some year of slowly adapting more and more adobe cloud i'm out.

By 3TB photos are now moved to @NextCloud hosted by @hetzner

I stil have some @darktable skill to learn to achieve the same workflow-speed and results as in Lightroom by I will manage. #darktable #nextcloud #opensource #opensourcephoto #bigtexit #bigtech

In the process of moving 200,000 pictures from Adobe Creative Cloud to NextCloud at Hetzner. Just finished downloading them from Adobe to a harddisk after 6 days. Now syncing to NextCloud. Adobe I'm Out! #bigtexit #usexit #nextcloud #darkroom #gimp #hetzner

Som et del af mit #bigTexit nytårsfortsæt om at forlade #bigtech og amerikanske tjeneste i det omfang det kan lade sig gøre har jeg nu flyttet mit Instragram feed til Pixelfed. Jeg har testet over et par uger og er nu flyttet til

https://pixelfed.dk/sindum.

På min Instragram sider ligger denne reminder i en perioden ind til jeg lukker kontoen helt.

#pixelfed #pixelfed.dk #instagram