#LockIn

OpenSoul ✅OpenSoul
2025-05-02

@DigiDavidex

Appunto il problema è che il formato nativo suo *.f3d è un formato *proprietario* di

Come già successo, purtroppo, possono dalla sera alla mattina creare una licenza della versione free per cui tutto quello che hai fatto, dovrai pagare anche solo per aprirli

Anche solo per questo per questo inaccettabile e vergognoso, questi software, IMHO, dovrebbero essere completamente boicottati, indipendentemente dalla loro qualità/valore

Rachel Levievarakhelele@cr8r.gg
2025-05-01

Tutanota — это такой сервис, который вроде как про приватность, но по факту больше про то, чтобы ты ни с кем не мог нормально взаимодействовать. Забудьте про SMTP и IMAP, это слишком небезопасно по их версии реальности. Поэтому подключить почту к своему клиенту? Нет. Сделать рассылку с CRM? Нет. Перенести архив писем на другую платформу? Ну-у-у… теоретически когда-нибудь. Зато внутри своего уютного гетто всё шифруется насмерть, а если вы хотите написать внешнему миру, то собеседник должен пройти квест с паролями и временными ссылками. Очень удобно, да. И да, сервера строго в Германии, потому что если уж быть заложником системы, то хотя бы с немецким паспортом. Tutanota — это не «почта нового поколения», это скорее почта без почты. Без протоколов, без совместимости, без вариантов. Полностью безопасно, потому что полностью изолировано. Лучше сразу голубями, там хотя бы SMTP не нужен.

#Tutanota #Email #Privacy #SecureButUseless #NoSMTP #NoIMAP #LockIn #TechRant #Encryption #DigitalPrivacy #Germany #EmailClients #WalledGarden #PrivacyMyth #UserExperience #EmailGatekeeping #BetterUsePigeons #ModernTech #PrivacyForWho #GDRPApprovedPigeons mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1111

Rihards Olupsrichlv
2025-05-01

Opened Github, an MS Copilot was pushed as the very first search field.
Had to ask it this, and one reason was honest enough.

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2025-04-18

9 Best Curling Irons of 2025, Tested for All Hair Types

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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:publicvoit@graz.social
2025-04-17

@lascapi @alternativeto IMO it's not important that you've got one tool that combines everything.

More important it that it is that flexible so that you can include/access/combine data and other tools as well.

Yes, #Emacs is probably *the* most versatile piece of software there is (and I'm using it since decades).

However, I don't use any of its built-in #email solutions (for reasons) but rather embed emails from my mail client (Evolution) so that I can link mails and open them very easily. That's the true power of advanced tooling, not the "one tool that does all of that".

And I'm aware of the irony of that message, considering the fact that Emacs has the power of including really anything(!) within its borders. 😉

And of course: it's always better when it's FOSS and not closed source in order to minimize #lockin effects (besides proper standardized, open storage formats).

#PIM

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:publicvoit@graz.social
2025-04-11

Of course, if you do have long-time plans for your personal #knowledgemanagement, you should not use proprietary tools like #Obsidian, #OneNote, #Evernote and alike.

You also should think of switching to a much better (learnability, portability/compatibility, typobility, logic, featureset) markup syntax like #orgdown which is used in #Emacs #Orgmode (among other tools).

But if you start with Org-mode, you need to know the right way of doing it, as so many web pages recommend. Here's my take:

#UOMF: The Right Way to Use #OrgMode
karl-voit.at/2021/08/30/the-or

ad syntax/Markdown/Orgdown/#LML: karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmod

A specific blog post about the #lockin effects of Obsidian and Co (despite using some tool-specific flavor of MD) is in the making. (Please don't start a religious discussion here.)

#publicvoit #PIM #PKM

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:publicvoit@graz.social
2025-03-26

@pauby Yes, most #Obsidian users don't think of the effects of proprietary syntax extensions and lost tool features to work with their files when the tool isn't available anymore.

I'm writing a longer blog article about those more or less subtle lock-in effects of proprietary tools like Obsidian which are using alleged(?) open file formats for storage.

#Markdown #lockin

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:publicvoit@graz.social
2025-03-26

If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:

You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m

For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.

People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of

My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis

#PIM #notetaking #vendorlockin #FOSS #opensource #Notion #Roam #PKM

Apparently #Bluesky fans need heroines. Simple principles of #digital #sovereignty are not understood?! It's not even possible to set an expiry date for skeets etc. Moreover, the system is in no way comparable to the #Fediverse / #Mastodon (keyword #Lockin etc.).

Torsten Brongerbronger
2025-03-16
2025-03-13

"If it doesn't support natively, it's going to be a failure" was one of the common criticisms during times ten years ago.

"Does it support ?" is a common question about .

Good reminder that we still haven't figured out messaging at all and can easily happen even with solutions that look more free and open at first glance. There are still no good alternatives to Signal's iOS/Android apps.

2025-03-09

Wo would have thought the one thing locking people into specific operating system variants the most would be stupid online banking apps

2025-03-02

Tja, solche Abhängigkeiten sind nicht gut.

Ein #Microsoft-Ausfall hat wiederholt tausende Nutzer betroffen – vor allem #Outlook, aber auch andere #Microsoft365-Dienste wie #Excel und #PowerPoint.

Die Probleme traten am Samstag auf, konnten aber durch einen Code-Rollback teilweise behoben werden.

In den letzten Jahren kam es wiederholt zu weltweiten #IT-Störungen bei Microsoft.

edition.cnn.com/2025/03/01/bus

#CloudComputing #IT #Software #Störung #LockIn

Paul Schoonhoven 🍉 🍋vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-02-25

Kan Europa zich losweken van Amerikaanse bedrijven, en moet het dat willen? | #Trouw
trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie

Het advies om 'gespreid in te kopen' aan het eind van het artikel nier slecht. Wat ik met mn eigen data al heel vroeg geleerd Heb, is vooral voorkomen dat je tegen een lock-in aan loopt. Vooral als het heel makkelijk gemaakt wordt met, wat ik noem, spiegeltjes en kraaltjes. Die lijken heel wat, maar uiteindelijk kun je alleen met grote moeite weg.

#Economie #LockIn #Spreiding

2025-02-18

@TheBreadmonkey

Anyone can do it. They are scared and inertia freezes them. They have an app that they just can not give up.

#Lockin

Emus for EntropyPeteGozz@theblower.au
2025-02-06
2025-02-04

#UnplugTrump - Tipp4:
Gestern haben wir dir empfohlen, auf alternative Messenger umzusteigen. Technisch ist das schnell erledigt, aber wie motivierst du deinen Freundeskreis zum Wechsel? Dasselbe gilt für Social-Media-Netzwerke. Hier einige soziale Hacks und Gedanken, die helfen: Besser Leben mit dem Netzwerkeffekt – diese Tipps unterstützen dich auch beim Wechsel zu alternativen Messengern. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/gutes-leben-mit

#NetzwerkEffekt #Signal #LockIn #Messenger #SocialMedia

Eine Art Social-Network oder Social-Graph. In der Mitte ist ein Icon einer Person, von dem mehrere Linien zu weiteren Personen/Icons verlaufen und diese miteinander verbinden.
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:publicvoit@graz.social
2025-01-15

Abhängigkeit von USA und China: Deutsche #Wirtschaft will #digitaleSouveränität heise.de/news/Abhaengigkeit-vo

Oh, ich bin mir sicher, dass sie das möchte. Allerdings wird sie genauso wie in der #EU allgemein vor den notwendigen teuren und sehr langfristigen Maßnahmen wieder zurückschrecken - wie immer, wenn's d'rauf ankommt. 😔

Nennt mir bitte ein Gegenbeispiel, wo wir unserer verlorene digitale Eigenständigkeit wesentlich(!) zurückerlangt haben. 🤔

Dabei wäre es soooo wichtig für sehr viele kommende Generationen. Wir verlieren schon seit zu vielen Jahren massiv #KnowHow durch #Outsourcing, #Cloud, usw..

#lockin #hardware

2025-01-13

Es ist ja zu befürchten, dass viele, die sich gerade noch aufraffen konnten, #Xitter den Rücken zu kehren, sich bei #FckMeta sehr viel schwerer tun werden.

Der #LockIn Effekt ist bei Instagram, Facebook und Whatsapp eben noch viel größer.

(Mich zum Teil eingeschlossen)

Motivation and Mindsetmotivationandmindset
2025-01-12

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