🎉 Big Tech alternatives are finally getting mainstream media attention!

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

🎉 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

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@Tutanota A shame they forget to mention the fediverse :\ And AI? Best alternative must be HI ;)

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

@anderslund Hopefully next time!

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@Tutanota

Talking about "enshitiffication" in this article brings up the Grauniads own goal in enshittification, whereby they try to force you in their own anti-enshittification article to either subscribe, or allow them to scrape your data for advertising revenue!

Of course you CAN just hit Text Only Mode in suitable browsers, but how many average people know to do this?

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@Tutanota

They did mention Mastodon, but not the wider Fediverse which is definitely a blindspot in this article.

@anderslund

[thom@swiss.social]

@anderslund @alexadeswift @Tutanota

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@thom

... I tried to get a Screenshot, and failed!

@anderslund @Tutanota

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@thom @alexadeswift @Tutanota
Appears someone (!) had checked "whole words" in my search settings :p

[brainsuxx666@mastodon.social]

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

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@brainsuxx666 @Tutanota absolutely right. #People need #privacy & #security at low #price, 70%of world population are average people's. They need things at budget level

[unhitched@mastodon.social]

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

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

@unhitched We are! They got it wrong.

[bjarne@social.bvoigtlaender.de]

@Tutanota > An even more private [...] version of Firefox is LibreWolf, which was developed by Codeberg, a German software nonprofit.

Can't tell if AI or just not bad journalism :( Still happy to see more mainstream attention about this.

[mfurlan@mastodon.world]

@Tutanota Good to see more reasons to unsubscribe from those companies who are funding US fascism. And some very viable options to those companies who are contributing to our demise.

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com

#resistandunsubscribe

[janus_k@ieji.de]

@Tutanota I think it's great that, finally, privacy oriented alternatives are getting the attention they deserve. But this must become a principle to defend on itself, because it took the tech bros political marriage to Trump in order to change minds. When these tech bros were still large donors to the democratic party, privacy and digital rights were widely derided or even frowned upon. So hopefully we learn from this, and start taking a longer term position on our digital rights.

[gwentlarry@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

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

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@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