You are responsible for your actions and they have an impact.
When you buy or use a product, you show that you endorse it. That implies that it meets your values. For me it’s important to endorse privacy respecting free software and i think we as a project should also do that. There are a lot of good projects that people may not know of! https://switching.software/
It’s not about feeling moraly superior but improving peoples lives. They might not understand the implications that using Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft (GAFAM) has. We should know better and lead by example and offer help to those willing to switch. We should build, support and promote privacy respecting free software!
That might apply to some big corporations like Microsoft, but not for individual users of free software and community free software projects. There are a lot of people out there that care deeply about free software and privacy!
The only unfree software on my systems for example is Steam and the proprietary Nvidia driver. Today i had to use Zoom at work for the first and hopefully also the last time. We are evaluating Jitsi Meet, one team already uses it for their daily standup in the homeoffice.
There is a free software project called Jitsi Meet which offers voice/video conferences right in the browser. Just open the URL of a room and your’ in. No software install or user account creation and login. It is widely used and quiet stable (with chromium, firefox has some issues).
NixOS Office Hours switched to it from Zoom
The new marketing team used it for their meeting
Please consider using it and recommend it when you like it. This way we can promote free software and help to free the users from companies like Google, Zoom and Discord.