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I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us... and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.
I've hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.
That changed yesterday and I'm transferring everything over to Australia.
For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you're here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.
Don't buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let's face it, most of those are crap anyway).
And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.
Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won't be quite as well off as it thinks it is.
Canadian here. This is exactky what we are doing. Everything we can not to support anything "America". Welcome to the fuck them club.
As an American, this is wacky to read--but I'm fully in support. What can i say, i think there's some good ones here but not enough to balance out all the shite ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was a good run, i guess? Lol
I'm sorry for the good ones, but the current actions are a huge threat to democracy worldwide, and while I think the puppet masters expect this response and globalisation is already in the process of collapsing (read The End of the World Is just the Beginning - Mapping the Collapse of Globalisation by Peter Zeihan) we can try and avoid this fate elsewhere. It is NOT inevitable that the tech bros rule us all as serfs, but getting away from Big Tech, means cutting off the US out of our digital lives as much as we can.
Everyone here is ahead of the game 👍