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   Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 03:34:44 JST Dan Goodin

   Even people with the most to lose continue to support and rely heavily on:

   -- Google
   -- Slack
   -- Meta
   -- Microsoft
   -- Apple
   -- Too many others to list

   These orgs cozy up to authoritarianism. They terminate your account for any reason or no reaso at all. They shove AI down your throat.

   And yet, my workplace, union, and so many of the orgs I value and need keep using them and have no plans to ween themselves off. Yes, I realize current dynamics make all of this inevitable.

   So I'm left feeling hopeless and helpless, which is a terrible place to be.

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 04:41:35 JST Dan Goodin

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     I appreciate everyone who has taken time to respond. Unfortunately, some of the responses demonstrate how much many of us privacy-minded technologists live in ivory towers and have no idea how hard it is to get the rest of the world to take on the added friction of switching.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 05:29:12 JST Miakoda

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     @dangoodin Those types of orgs should really invest in their own NextCloud server or something

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 09:32:44 JST Dan Goodin

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     • Miakoda

     @hellomiakoda

     I take it you've never been a member of a union or non-technologist non-profit org.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 09:32:44 JST Miakoda

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     @dangoodin I do know every cause has at least a few computer nerds among them, on all sides. There are leftist Linux nerds and server nerds. It is trivial to find us.