Completely agree and I'm on the same train. I boycott as much as I can from the USA.
When the rest of the world catches up, dumps us bonds, treasuries, stocks, and revokes ridiculous copyright protections that prevent repair or circumvention to disenshittify, then I'll be satisfied.
I agree. New user introduction is very poor. Took me ages just to choose an instance - and that was in no small part because I'm here not only to escape the enshittified chokepoint capitalism of american big tech, but also because I'm utterly sick of the domination of US centric points of view and censorship. Even though i know communities are not instance locked, I wanted an instance that is not likely to be managed in the same way. Time will tell if I chose well or poorly
Let's just substitute China for America and see how that reads...
'There is this time now when people, perhaps rather conveniently in Europe and indeed elsewhere, might be ignoring that America's economy has massively been running on slave-like labour for long period now. I think these and other human rights violations in America aren't gone. I think America has very strong dictatorial policies, censorship, and surveillance capabilities.'
I don't think anything in that revised text is completely wrong.The inadequacies of US human rights and employment rights do impact to the point of forcing many into fearful servitude as a form of slave labour, even when they aren't just quietly paying slave wages for manufacture in other countries anyway.
I'm not saying you are wrong about China, but a critique of anyone pursuing 'partnership' with China while not even mentioning equivalent criticisms of the current dominant trade partner discredits the complaint. If anything trade with china is a side grade, but probably not a downgrade.
Not all EU, but all moves in the right direction i think...
Android to GrapheneOS
WhatsApp to Signal
Windows to Linux Mint
Office365 to Libre office
Chrome to Vivaldi
Google search to Ecosia
Google maps to Organic maps
GMail / Calendar to Proton + own domain. (Not .com obviously)
Google Drive to Proton Drive
MS Onedrive to Filen
Made a Raspberry Pi SFTP server also running syncthing. (Need to set it up to be a PiHole too)
Kindle to Kobo
Reddit to Lemmy
Retro gaming on handhelds
Streaming services to physical media (and self ripped digital files)
Plus boycot all the fast food chains, coca-cola etc.
That's off the top of my head.