By gekko513
I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.
It’s a process.
You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate
I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they don’t allow changing your address at all 😆
Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.
Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.
These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.
Sad Element/Matrix noises q.q
Right! Tedomum.net is hosted in France 🥖
This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.
The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.
Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.
Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.
The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!
Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.
This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.
It’s basically filling the void the Xitter transition created. Either way, we got a massive boost in the decentralised space.
It’s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t have the right pull right now.
Regardless, flat-out lying and saying that Bluesky is non-profit is a bad look.
I agree.
Taking sides in a
warkerfuffle between billionaires that don’t care about you is just weird nonsense.Go as fossy as possible and support your devs directly.
Shout-out to Sharkey! We’re young, hip and have reactions other than “heart”. Plus, we can talk to Mastodon instances and it all just works. Ever thought what your social network needed was unlockable achievements? We’ve got that, too!
Neat - any public instances accepting registrations?
btw lil formatting quirk on Safari iOS (maybe just appropriate punishment 😉) if y’all know who has edit access
There’s some: https://sharkey.fediverse.observer/list . The “active users” listed on that chart is inaccurate, though.
I’ll see if I can figure out who can fix that formatting quirk (probably not me, also am afk/at a convention this weekend 😊).
You made me look up Sharkey and create a Sharkey account, just letting you know you had some impact.
uis sick, easy to run an instance with yunohost too, I always wanted discord like emojis for twitter posts
Awesome! I hope you enjoy it :)
Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
Proton is a Swiss company, not EU
Sure, but it’s listed in the image on services.
Europe is a continent, EU is the European Union which has 27 member countries in Europe that are not Switzerland.
Yes, absolutely. Again, not the point of my comment which is the chart the OP posted has some questionable suggestions if you’re picking and choosing businesses based on their political support (which I fully support people doing)
Europe != E.U.
They support their pockets
Hello and welcome to the point!
There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.
“Perfect is the enemy of good. Please accept this slop.”
TBF, it says “European”, not “good”.
It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.
So whats a better list, or what should be removed?
“Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction
Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.
Good to know. See? Some actual actionable information
BlueSky is not owned by a non profit. First row.
I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter
It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit
While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.
Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).
I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.
Totally fair
Pretty ironic that the website that created this, buy-european-made.eu, is actually promoting their Reddit community. They should really switch to an EU-hosted Lemmy instance, and also join Mastodon, just like european-alternatives.eu: @european_alternatives@mastodon.social
This list seems a bit flawed, for instance on the travel line, Trivago is owned by Expedia in the US and Booking is headquartered in Amsterdam.
Also including BlueSky seems a little odd given the intent
Re Bluesky I did some “I am not a lawyer” digging.
Bluesky is owned by “Bluesky Social PBC”, a Public Benefit Company registered in Delaware.
Generally speaking it means when decisions about the company are made, they must take into account how that decision benefits their stated public value. I struggled to find the specific value wording, but let’s assume it’s a reasonable one for the time being.
Unfortunately being a PBC is basically voluntary, especially when you’re still a private company. You can become a non-PBC with a simple board vote. (A public company would require a stockholder vote.)
Bluesky’s board consists of four members, one of which is Bain Capital, aka the company funding Bluesky.
So Bluesky is absolutely a better alternative to Twitter. If everyone left Twitter and moved to Bluesky that would be a monumental improvement.
However Bluesky is not a non-profit company, as the above graphic states.
bluesky is just Xlite.
Huh, Bain is Romney’s group. Didn’t know they were involved there.
Trivago isn’t completely “owned” by Expedia, but Expedia does own a majority of the company stock. Its headquarters are in Germany, and 100% of its employees are there.
Booking.com is 100% owned by Priceline, a US company. They also have a long string of international controversies.
The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.
You make facebook sound a lot cooler than it actually is.
Why don’t we(lemmy) get to suck the rigid cock of Satan? This is metal as fuck.
I think if you quit you’ll find you’re fine without it.
It’s hard because all my old Livejournal friends are on there.
I’ll just buy using temu or AliExpress. European brands are too expensive in my third world country
JPEG over WEBP
7-Eleven is 100% Japanese since 2005
Boycott 9-Eleven instead.
And for software like Microsoft and Adobe:
Some more recommendations
Category FOSS Media player mpv Drawing Krita Vectorial illustration Inkscape Video editing Kdenlive Music making Ardour I don’t know Ardour but these are actually solid!
Look, I love Audacity which is an awesome audio editor but it is absolutely not an alternative to Logic or Fl, which are DAWs.
FreeCAD is a start, but nowhere as good as AutoCAD, unfortunately. I haven’t tried GIMP’s v3.0 version yet, but 2.x is terrible to use. Depending on what you need to do, Krita would be a better alternative.
Audacity isn’t a good replacement at all for those. It has a different purpose. There should be LMMS and Ardour instead
Lol who’s using winamp and real player in 2025?
Who’s using VLC in 2025? It renders colours in mkvs so badly sometimes! mpv (with SMPlayer as front end) is where it’s at!
MPV > all
I still use Winamp 5.666 but with the Big Bento theme. I still can’t find a replacement that would be just as good or better.
Me :)
With the old UI too (Winamp)
Lots of things in life may change, but my mp3 player must always stay the same.
Winamp was good but real player has always been trash
Yeah, I’ve pretty much just continued to use the media software my dad used in the 2000’s, which was Winamp for mp3s and VLC for video.
The best alternative to commercial CAD systems is commercial CAD systems if you know what I mean. That said, FreeCAD is the only option if you want to run on Linux. Inventor, Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc, are all borked even in wine.
I’ve never really tried it, but onshape is browser based.
I never really cared for onshape/simscale or fusion. Maybe I am just oldschool but the whole browser based thing didn’t sit right with me for CAD stuff.
I’ve worked professionally with a lot of CAD systems in the past (Caria, Solidworks, Siemens NX, Creo …) and Onshape feels so refreshing compared to all of these “old school” CAD systems.
The git like system to manage to manage version for example works extremely well, performance wise it can be used on a potato and being browser based it can be used on Linux.
The design process is extremely smooth and intuitive.
My only problem with it is that unfortunately all the data is cloud based and it requires a constant internet connection but so far I have not found a worthy alternative.
Yeah, the versioning and operations history functions a similar to an always refreshing l pdm suite imo which can be handy but I never found it to be all that much better for my needs. I didn’t play with the version merging functions much though. The only via internet aspect was a dealbreaker for me from a functional and security perspective.
Word alternative: I started trying out OnlyOffice, based in Latvia. So far it seems decent. Definitely doesn’t look as dated as Open- and LibreOffice.
Logic, FL Studio alternative: Audacity is in my opinion not a serious alternative. If you want simple voice overs, sure, but otherwise no. I’d recommend Reaper instead. Not open source, but there aren’t many DAWs that are (maybe Ardour, but I don’t have experience with it ). Reaper is really open as far as proprietary DAWs go.
