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

@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.

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
Købte en brugt Lenovo i efteråret og den kører nu #Kubuntu. Mål for 2026 er at flytte alt mit private ud af Big Tech. Har lukket mine Facebook og X-konti, men mangler alternativ til WhatsApp for chats og billeder til vores gamle forældre og nærmeste familie. Ideer?

@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

@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.

@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus
What's your opinion about Jottacloud? They are a Norwegian company.
https://jottacloud.com/nb/