Big Tech alternative products and services – what used to be a very niche market just for tech-savvy and privacy-aware internet users – have in recent years started gaining mindshare among “regular folk,” as many people began to acknowledge the scale of erosion of what are basically their “online civil liberties” – happening right before their eyes.
There have been many projects cropping up in the hope of providing viable answers to censorship, deplatforming, content and speech restrictions and old-school market manipulation by proprietary software vendors – some of these “pioneers” more successful than others.
