’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.

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.

’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.

#DanmarkSkifter

@CiaraNi Nice ! Halfway that road, not fully yet.
Android is the weak point, need to figure that out.
Special for Maps for the few times we still need a car.
Laptop and PC are older ones. Running very smooth with Linux, no Big Bros there anymore.

’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.

#DanmarkSkifter

@Flatus @CiaraNi

i do photos, videos and such with a local self-hosted nextcloud - am super happy with that

’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.

#DanmarkSkifter

@CiaraNi many people would like to delete Microsoft

@mirabilos Ha yes I hope it's obvious what I meant - it was just my shorthand way of saying 'empty my account, delete my account, cancel my subscription'.

’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.

#DanmarkSkifter

’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.

#DanmarkSkifter

@CiaraNi

Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):

Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.

edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.

@CiaraNi kig evt @filen leger også god med Linux og er fra Tyskland.
Pcloud har jeg ikke personligt prøvet men skulle også være god og er fra Schweiz.
Internxt er også en eu udbyder, mener de er fra Spanien.

@CiaraNi

Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):

Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.

edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.

@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/

@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.

@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

@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

@CiaraNi yeah, but still, the idea

@CiaraNi

We need a EuropeShifts.