Alternatives in UK
Finding UK alternatives for digital products, platforms and services.
Our hope is, by mapping what exists and highlighting the gaps, we can begin to create an ecosystem that delivers what we need, here in the UK. Also https://mastodon.social/@alt_in_uk
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: https://about.danhon.com i make: https://donotreply.cards work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/ my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallway-track DM or Signal danhon.1701
@disquietedpoet.bsky.social
Guiana Brasileira and LDN are home. Love to write with pen and paper. Afraid of algorithms.
@cblunt.bsky.social
👨💻 Software developer #rubyonrails #docker #aws 🏢 Business owner at @plymouthsoftware.com 📝 Posts #rubyonrails #railsondocker #valuepricing #business 🫖 Tea drinker (☕️ too ...)
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social
Media mental health researcher at the intersection of Neuroscience 🧠, Developmental Psychology 👧, & Media Communication 📱🎮
@connectedbydata.org
The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world. connectedbydata.org
@bestforbritain.bsky.social
Fixing the problems Britain faces after Brexit. Change Minds → Change Politics CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social GUEST ~AA @SturdyAlex.bsky.social
@dama-yanthy.bsky.social
Fond of the metric system. Investing in impact-driven startups @bgventures.bsky.social
@annadent.bsky.social
Research and policy adviser - www.abdconsultancy.co.uk Futures of work & employment support, digital welfare state, ethical tech and AI etc. Fellow https://connectedbydata.org/, associate https://rocketsciencelab.co.uk/
@dracos.co.uk
I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
@mrchrisadams.bsky.social
Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation. He/Him. @mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
@emfcamp.bsky.social
A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2024. Website: emfcamp.org Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
@jwyg.bsky.social
🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation
@simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […] [bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
Covering tech at Bloomberg from London Signal: @oliviasolon.13 Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@wstronge.bsky.social
Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social Website: autonomy.work Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
@louhicky.bsky.social
Incoming Wellcome's Early Career Award. Research Associate with Minderoo Centre for Democracy and Technology, University of Cambridge.
@sarahtgold.bsky.social
CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers… https://projectsbyif.com https://sarah.gold
@jessrmorley.bsky.social
100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.
@worklesshard.bsky.social
Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
@jayowens.bsky.social
I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I write about environmental politics. ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023) 🔗 https://JayOwens.me 📧 https://disturbances.ghost.io/ 📙 https://hachette.co.uk/titles/jay-owens/dust/9781529362
@orbenamy.bsky.social
tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@himself.bsky.social
http://www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app