🚨 Vitalik Buterin: the time of digital sovereignty

The co-founder of Ethereum publicly called to move away from Google, Telegram, and large social networks in favor of private and decentralized solutions.

In a series of posts on X, Vitalik shared what stack he uses himself — and this is not just words, but a fully functional alternative to familiar services 👀

🔐 The main idea — privacy, autonomy, and open-source.

Without tracking, without centralization, and without speculative "social" tokens, which he directly calls a bubble, not an innovation 💥

📍 What Vitalik uses:

🗺 Maps and navigation

Google Maps → OpenStreetMap + Organic Maps

Works offline and does not track the user.

📧 Email and documents

Proton Mail with encryption + Fileverse for decentralized file work.

💬 Messengers

Abandoning Telegram → Signal

Sometimes — Session and SimpleX Chat (by the way, he donated $800 000 to these projects 💸).

🌐 Social networks

Instead of X (Twitter): Farcaster, Bluesky, and Lens

Posts via Firefly — a single interface for all feeds.

🤖 Artificial intelligence

Local LLMs through Ollama and ComfyUI, to avoid sending data to the cloud and third-party services.