I feel like a version of this guide gets reposted weekly, but it’s always out of date.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
If you don’t care about America’s decline into fascism, why are you even in this community? Why not just continue happily using Google products and other American tech?
But honestly, “I do not care about politics on the other side of the globe, and I’m not jobless enough to censure everything” is such an incredibly shitty entitled attitude to have. You should care. Not caring is not something to proudly trumpet out to the world. It makes you look selfish and wilfully ignorant.
Whether you believe certain specific responses to any given issue are actually productive and worth the trade-off is an entirely separate matter. If you’re gonna continue using Proton because you can’t find anything as good as it to switch to, or because you don’t think the CEO’s comments were bad enough to warrant cancellation, or even that the switching cost would be too high relative to how much impact it would have, I wouldn’t blame you. There are certainly American products that I continue to use because the benefit they provide me outweighs how much impact I think switching could have.
But a blanket statement that you don’t care about the most powerful country in the world losing all semblance of rule of law? Jesus fucking Christ dude. Could you show a little humanity?
Also, the politics of the current world empire will affect us all, no matter if you live in Mali, Malta or Malaysia.
I live in Germany and we are also currently sliding into authorianizm. The US politics defintly play a role as catalyzator.
What a strawman. There are many reasons to not use Google products that have nothing to do with Google being in the USA.