PurchaseWithPurpose

A weekly thread where you can share and chat through your progress, challenges and anything in between!

This movement is not a sprint; it is a marathon. It isn't about one tool, it is about all services, products, and just supporting better businesses. Given the scale of this task, I thought a space like this might be helpful while I work on something bigger!

Few ideas of things you might want to share:

• Any successes this week? New tool switched or product discovered?
• Any challenges and failures you might have had? You aren't alone!
• Got any questions on how certain new tools work?
• Companies you want to shout-out for doing something good? Or the opposite!
• Movements you feel that more people should support?
• Guides or articles you found particularly useful or helpful?

These could also be their own posts, but sometimes it's easier to make a quick comment.

A weekly thread where you can share and chat through your progress, challenges and anything in between!

This movement is not a sprint, it is a marathon. It isn't about one tool, it is about all services, products and just supporting better businesses. Given the scale of this task, I thought a space like this might be helpful while I work on something bigger!

Few ideas of things you might want to share:

• Any successes this week? New tool switched or product discovered?
• Any challenges and failures you might have had? You aren't alone!
• Got mandone questions on how certain new tools work?
• Companies you want to shout-out for doing something good? Or the opposite!
• Movements you feel that more people should support?
• Guides or articles you found particular useful or helpful?

These could also be their own posts, but sometimes its easier to make a quick comment.-

Reasons until now

Increasingly, every time a new guide is shared, people ask for a link or struggle with the image itself. I've avoided that because 1) I didn't know (and still don't) whether this would turn into anything substantial. 2) I felt Reddit, Lemmy and other communities were good enough as a platform.

Is now the right time (some stats)

It appears that there is a strong and continued interest in finding alternatives that might justify putting more time into it.

• Reddit shows 1M+ views across all posts over the last 1-2 months
  • Although this will be inflated, this doesn't include other platforms such as Lemmy (no stats here), BlueSky and LinkedIn (apparently was posted there a few times)
• There has been a lot of engagement with people asking questions - 10k+ comments
• The movement was growing at about 1k per week - not bad!
• It is becoming challenging to have all the different versions up-to-date and easily accessible

Benefits of a site

• Easier to maintain the latest versions without re-posts
• Easier to navigate between guides/options
• Easier to share with others
• Most importantly, track impact!
  • A common question is, "Is this even making a difference?". This way, we can track the actual monetary impact, which tools people choose, and why.
  • This will help keep individuals motivated to do more and attract new people to the different causes.

Current ideas for a site

• Three tiers to compare different options
  • The full guide with 3-4 per category
  • A deep dive guide per category with recommendations and opinionated groupings
  • A detailed table per category with features to filter and sort by
• Profile to track the impact
  • Your monetary impact per month/year
  • How many people have you referred, along with their impact
  • What is the global community's impact to date
• It will be open-sourced and try to avoid any of the big-tech providers (where possible)
  • I will sponsor the hosting and can do the full development
  • It should take about ~2 weeks to get up and running

That said, I am already struggling to keep up with 2 weekly updates (a new deep-dive guide and category to the overall guide). For this to become a reality, I will need your help, great or small!

What can you do?

• Please comment on whether you would use such a website, and share any ideas.
• If anyone has experience with Vuejs (or React) and would like to contribute, that would be more than appreciated!
• If anyone has experience with Figma (or equivalent) and would like to contribute, that would be more than appreciated!
• If anyone is interested in helping with the research, please let me know. Shoutout again to u/MegSpen725, who has helped the last few weeks!

You can either DM me or comment below on any of the above.

Even if this doesn't materialise, it has been amazing to see the engagement and growth of the movement!

Fastmail has their servers in the us and is located in australia - @[email protected] - comment

Infomaniak is not swedish - @[email protected] - comment

• Rather it is swiss - me - comment

Lemmy is open to the point that on some instances you can see who voted on what - @[email protected] - comment

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35236593

I feel like a version of this guide gets reposted weekly, but it's always out of date.

u/theFallenWalnut over on that other site updates these regularly.

They also now link to [email protected] but I don't see anything posted there. Maybe a better place to start reposting these

Mine isn't all that fancy, lol.

The focus has been more on the digital realm, which is important, but would something focused on physical purchases be useful? I could see that getting unwieldy as well, so perhaps something like this would be better as a wiki page