Messaging alternatives are unfortunately useless if people you want to chat with use other apps. Pretty much the same with mentioned Mastodon instances. Duck Duck Go isn't very good compared even to modern Google slop search. OSM is good for hikes but lacks heavily when you want to find businesses, restaurants etc. around the city. All of the above is hard to replace with alternatives.
Beeper.com is promising. It rolls a lot of the big messaging apps into one. You can add 5 or 6 accounts under the free plan.
I had a Tidal subscription for over a year. I love that they pay the artists way more. Unfortunately Tidal looks similar Spotify, but is somehow janky and less polished. Sharing music was a hassle. I had to go search my friends shares by typing the artist and song into tidal because most of them use Spotify. Spotify is the typical BigCo spreading enshittification far and wide, but not enough people care to change that.
Often the most important part of an app is the user base. That is why inferior apps with a gigantic community are hard to replace.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 13.5 ms ] threadI had a Tidal subscription for over a year. I love that they pay the artists way more. Unfortunately Tidal looks similar Spotify, but is somehow janky and less polished. Sharing music was a hassle. I had to go search my friends shares by typing the artist and song into tidal because most of them use Spotify. Spotify is the typical BigCo spreading enshittification far and wide, but not enough people care to change that.
Often the most important part of an app is the user base. That is why inferior apps with a gigantic community are hard to replace.