’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
-
’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
We need a EuropeShifts.
-
’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
-
Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):
Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.
@Pepijn Thanks, that's a good tip. Yes, it's a manual back-up. Just like in the old days, back when the internet was enjoyable. I have now, literally this minute, put a reminder in my calendar. Tak.
-
@Crisper Tak for forslagene og navnene. Dem vil jeg undersøge.
-
Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):
Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.
@Pepijn it does actually, if you make backing things up easy enough.
This is super nerdy, but I have an entry in my monitoring software that expects at least one manual backup per week. "Manual" means that I have to take a USB drive and plug it in. With some Linux magic, once this exact drive is plugged it, it will automatically start a backup job and send me a push notification when it's done and tell my monitoring that a backup was created.
If I forget about it, I'll get nagging reminders until I do it.
@CiaraNi -
I sync my Photos automatic to my PC, when I come home and my smartphone switch to my Wifi. Then Syncthing do the rest for me.
Syncthing:
https://syncthing.net/Syncthing on Android:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/EDIT: It's all Open Source Software
@Bodo Interesting. That sounds effective. I must look at that. Thanks for the tip.
-
@Pepijn Thanks, that's a good tip. Yes, it's a manual back-up. Just like in the old days, back when the internet was enjoyable. I have now, literally this minute, put a reminder in my calendar. Tak.
@CiaraNi Super!
I wasn't trying to be pedantic btw. It's just that we have the same setup and even though I DO remember (I told myself "this is a thing on the first sunday of the month") for the past months life got in the way.
And then on Friday evening my laptop crapped out.. I eventually fixed it but it would've been very frustrating to have the backup disk be very much out of date.
-
@Crisper Tak for forslagene og navnene. Dem vil jeg undersøge.
@CiaraNi helt ok, jeg bruger filen.io som en daily driver på min Linux maskine. Og jeg har ikke noget at klage over.
-
@Pepijn it does actually, if you make backing things up easy enough.
This is super nerdy, but I have an entry in my monitoring software that expects at least one manual backup per week. "Manual" means that I have to take a USB drive and plug it in. With some Linux magic, once this exact drive is plugged it, it will automatically start a backup job and send me a push notification when it's done and tell my monitoring that a backup was created.
If I forget about it, I'll get nagging reminders until I do it.
@CiaraNi@irgndsondepp I'm pretty certain some people here would appreciate a tiny manual
-
@CiaraNi I am delighted to hear this good news from Denmark! Let us turn our backs on Big Tech!
#DanmarkSkifter #DigitalIndependence #did #dut #DigitalIndependenceDay #Fediverse #Europe #KickBigTech #DigitaleUnabhaengigkeit #Denmark
@chris It feels quite liberating. And oh the relief of getting away from ads and AI as much as possible!
-
@CiaraNi yeah, but still, the idea
@mirabilos It would be an excellent idea!
-
We need a EuropeShifts.
@lionelb Good idea
-
Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive. -
@sebastian @Flatus Thanks for the tip. I did browse around in NextCloud's solutions but couldn't see a simple off-the-shelf one for a non-tech person like me who just wants it to plug-and-play work. I've been waiting to see Tuta's drive. Then the DanmarkSkifter campaign nudged to me to stop faffing around - get off OneDrive now, get the photos backed up, then pick the right cloud solution after that. Otherwise I'll never take that final step.
@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus
What's your opinion about Jottacloud? They are a Norwegian company.
https://jottacloud.com/nb/ -
@jakobtougaard Jeg var ikke på Facebook, som giver udfordringer i dagligdagen (man er udelukket fra så meget) men til gengæld så slipper jeg for at skifte fra den. Twitter droppede jeg for Mastodon i 2022. Men WhatsApp, yikes - det er problembarnet. Jeg er på Signal men det er familien og de fleste venner ikke. Jeg kan derfor ikke slette WhatsApp endnu af samme årsag som du nævner. Jeg håber meget at der er en Tipping Point på vej også for WhastApp.
-
@Pepijn it does actually, if you make backing things up easy enough.
This is super nerdy, but I have an entry in my monitoring software that expects at least one manual backup per week. "Manual" means that I have to take a USB drive and plug it in. With some Linux magic, once this exact drive is plugged it, it will automatically start a backup job and send me a push notification when it's done and tell my monitoring that a backup was created.
If I forget about it, I'll get nagging reminders until I do it.
@CiaraNi@irgndsondepp @Pepijn Nagging reminders work for me
-
@irgndsondepp I'm pretty certain some people here would appreciate a tiny manual
-
@CiaraNi Super!
I wasn't trying to be pedantic btw. It's just that we have the same setup and even though I DO remember (I told myself "this is a thing on the first sunday of the month") for the past months life got in the way.
And then on Friday evening my laptop crapped out.. I eventually fixed it but it would've been very frustrating to have the backup disk be very much out of date.
@Pepijn Oh I didn't take it as pedantic at all! I have been out of the backing-up habit for years, so I did need a nudge there. It did happen to me many moons ago, where I lost more than I would have liked because I'd slacked on back-ups. So a reminder to do a regular reminder was appreciated. (Am glad you didn't lose your stuff, by the way.)
-
@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus
What's your opinion about Jottacloud? They are a Norwegian company.
https://jottacloud.com/nb/@andresimous @sebastian @Flatus Thanks for the recommendation - I've added the name to my list for investigating when I browser more around.
-
’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
