mastodon 4.7.3Writer and tour guide
People are tired of multiple subscriptions that often go unused. Buying a vinyl record or a DVD encourages conscious consumption and higher-quality leisure activities.
This is how I understand the increase in sales of physical media for music, films and series.
The first issue of Choosing Europe starts with a simple question:
Why keep our personal #email inside big-tech ecosystems when solid European alternatives exist and actually respect our privacy?
It also features a selection of European films, albums and podcasts worth discovering.
Read it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/choosingeurope/p/1-your-email-provider-matters
Awesome find: public domain books, carefully edited digitally.
They pick quality titles, and the editing makes reading even better.
@standardebooks@mastodon.social is going to be a big deal; it's a fantastic initiative! 🤩📚
@nathanael@exquisite.social You’re right — the irony is real.
If you feel like reading the full newsletter, you’ll see that the move to an independent, Europe-based service is already scheduled for the first week of March
What a shame and yet so true: build a great service, give it away for free, make it massive, then enshittify it.
That is exactly what Big Tech does.
Here a funny video: "A day in the life of an enshittificator"
https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
RE: @ubuntourist@mastodon.social
"The rest of the world is weighing up its reliance on US technologies, and in Europe especially we’re realising there are better alternatives to just about everything big tech is shilling."