I already replaced quite a few of these sites and apps. I still waste lots of time here on the fediverse though 😅

Vivaldi for browser, Ecosia for search engine and AI, newspapers apps instead of Google news suggestions and Lemmy.

🎵The internet is for porn.🎶

I feel like Zuckerfuck made this post for ideas on how to circumvent competition.

In that world, what would you use the Internet for?

Pretty much the same as before?

The only giant tech firm from your list I am actively engaged with is Google Alphabet because of Android and YouTube. Apart from that, there is PayPal because of online payments and WhatsApp because of other people. But for both, I have 1:1 replacements already in place to be used wherever available.

Fediverse users are already prepared greatly if something like this were to occur 😹

And I wish this would really happen

porn? no change, furry porn sites aren’t run by big tech

gaming? very little change as all I seem to be interested in lately is Space Station 14 and that’s open source with a standalone launcher that doesn’t require Steam

social media? nearly all of that for me is just mastodon and lemmy.

youtube videos going away would suck for the lost knowledge and art and discussion, tho if it meant google died that’s a price I’m willing to pay

I don’t use Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Apple, Google search, TikTok, or ChatGPT.

I use Amazon to order N95 masks a couple times per year but that can be done with other sites.

Twitter = Mastodon or Bluesky

Netflix = Torrent

Apple/Google = GrapheneOS if we are talking phone OS. Perhaps Linux if both companies are gone.

Google search = DuckDuckGo, Esonia, Brave

ChatGPT = I don’t trust any “AI” to give a factual answer.

Youtube = Odyssey, Bitchute, there is a video site in the Fediverse but the name escapes me at the moment.

I’d use a different search engine… and the rest of those I don’t use now. That’s not the Internet to me. I read webcomics and blogs, check fora, and play online games. I go directly to the websites I want, or I use RSS to get there from my aggregator. Hell, I still use webrings.

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Funny, but for me very little would change. The only one of those I use even occasionally is YT, and the videos would start appearing elsewhere. Peertube, maybe?

EDIT: Oh, I’d lose my steam library. That would be a nuisance!

Imagine there is no…

YT - dont use it. Don’t like video tutorials, I prefer to read them, don’t like adverts or propaganda!

no Twitter/X, no Facebook - not used them I over ten years

no Netflix, no Amazon - stopped using a few years ago

no Apple - never used

no Google to to search the Web - plenty of other search engines

no chatGPT - soon won’t be there for anyone!

I get my apps from F-droid, I read my web comics on websites, I send emails, I chat with my friends.

Does steam go in your scenario? In that case I imagine GoG will take over there!

You know, the only reason these companies have so much power over your government and so much of your money is they’ve tricked you that you’re missing out without them. 💁‍♂️

The same way we did it before those things existed or had taken over. Believe it or not, the internet used to be that way 👴

In terms of YouTube, I would use Peertube and Odysee or perhaps, GrayJay. Mastodon instead of Twitter, I don’t even need Facebook so nothing for Facebook, I’m a pirate anyways so I don’t even need Netflix, Amazon. I don’t need Apple in any way since I use Android. If there’s no existence of even an Android device, then I would either use a Linux Phone or just Linux on desktop. Brave Search or Mojeek or others instead of Google. Ask Brave (it’s American so I guess it’s not counted), Deepseek, Qwen etc. instead of ChatGPT. I don’t use Tiktok so nothing here. I would probably spend just a little bit less time on internet (mainly because of disappearance of YouTube). For me, not much would change other than the YouTube experience. I predict I would most likely watch TV channels more once again due to not finding enough enjoyable content.

We’re literally talking on Lemmy/Piefed right now, which would continue to work so I would just come here for recommendations on which search engines and websites to use as alternatives lol

So… Just like I already do today?

I suppose you didn’t mean litterally just those, but many American companies.

But of the ones you listed, sure I don’t really use any of them.

Tiktok? Really? Yuck. Facebook? Never have. Netflix? Do they even have anything good on anymore? Google? I haven’t used their search index long time. And so on.

My email has never been a major provider.