One person's recommendation for more secure software apps.

[usonian]

How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech
Joan Westenberg

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/american-tech-is-compromised-heres-my-replacement-stack-2/

"If you care about your rights, if you care about your data, if you're paying attention to U.S. decline, it's time to start looking for alternatives to American tech domination.

I've long been a proponent of simple tech. So I'm not looking to build a complex productivity stack with all the bells and whistles; all I want, all I need, is tech that works and does the job. And while in the past, privacy was a major concern, I'm taking that up a notch, trying to move as much of the technology I use off U.S. big tech platforms and servers and onto European / Canadian owned, operated, and hosted platforms, or open-source, distributed software maintained by international teams who aren't driven by a growth-at-all-costs mentality."

Some of these may be familiar. Others obscure, like even I haven't heard of them, and others may require some advanced skills or a dedicated server.

If in doubt, ask here or in the Computer Help forum.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

Maybe someone knows the answer or will be intrigued enough to do some research.

I use some of these, like Libre Office, so my data is not in the grubby hands of Microsoft or Google, and I dropped Evernote in favor of Joplin - local first notes.

No mention is made of Signal Messenger.