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I try to do my best with my technology stack, by ensuring they meet my own morals and standards for life. I do this via a combination of informed choices; supporting independent developers; self-hosting. A combination of these help me feel I am doing the right thing. What is the Right thing?That is the million-dollar question. For me, I want to be as sure as I can that my tech stack is not exploiting people; is fair to the community; delivers and lives by standards I can identify with. Changes I've madeAs an example, I obviously dropped X like a hot potato, when it was taken over by the egotist Musk. His vision, standards, and personality are vile. Clearly, I base his personality on what I read; I have never met the man That started my quest for more moral tech. Since then I've dropped Telegram; I refuse to read anything on substack; I've removed myself from Google's machine; I've migrated all my data storage into Europe from the USA; the list goes on. And now MullvadThe latest target…

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  • @daj Kagi has a troubling relationship/partnership with Brave and handled the disappointment of their users with the classic “big tent” and “tech is not political” and “we just want the best search results” arguments. You can find the megathread in their support forum. Also despite claims of privacy, I’ve never felt comfortable using search with a logged-in, traceable account. There’s no good answers in all this :(