Have you ever tried scrolling through a recipe on your mobile phone with greasy fingers in the kitchen? It’s difficult. That’s why the ‘Switch recipes’ from Digital Independence Day (external link) are now also available as a physical cookbook – perfect for keeping or giving as a gift! A portion of the proceeds goes to Save Social.
The DI.DAY book contains 20 simple ‘switch’ recipes, from changing your email provider and saying goodbye to WhatsApp in favour of Signal, to exploring alternatives to Spotify’s streaming monopoly.
Dota Kehr has contributed several song lyrics to the book, while Marc-Uwe Kling has written the foreword. In it, he writes:
It feels good not to have to transfer money to Lex Luthor every month. That’s true. But let’s not kid ourselves. Individual switches won’t be enough to break the power of Big Tech. Yet they are an important building block for shifting the public discourse. Every DID is a small digital demonstration for greater independence. The movement must grow so large that sensible people in the political arena feel a tailwind, and the opportunists see opportunities for themselves in taking action against Big Tech.
The DI.DAY book has been published by Hoffmann & Campe – a project that came to fruition in just three months, thanks in part to the publisher. The aim is to establish the DI.DAY book as a catalyst for conversation: anyone who gives it as a gift to friends or family is also sending a signal that it is worth discussing digital independence. And bookshops and libraries – which are fantastic ‘third places’ in civil society, particularly when it comes to the topic of digital independence – now have a medium around which they can organise events.
