@anna_lillith
No no no, there has been 1 arrest: A woman is in jail for it. Gislain.

Why was Bill Clinton impeached?

Their hypocrisis has no limits.

See the problem? Big Tech has the money to advertize their platforms all over the place.

You want to take out the services out of the hands of Big Tech? Fine, but then nobody has the money to force them down your throat.

This is where you and I come in, to make people aware of all these gems that already exists, built by volunteers, truly decentralized, but because nobody really "owns" the service, nobody is going to run an ad campaign for it.

Take a look here:

https://redecentralize.org/

Take a look here for a list of self hosted services:

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

Ask me if you want more.

I think, with all respect, that you have to educate yourself on this subject. An app is usually just a client, for some other service that runs somewhere on the internet.

Ok, not a calculator-app, because that one can run without any outside support.

But most apps, they use some kind of host. If that host can be anywhere in the world, then it is fine. However, if it is bound to a specific host, like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, you are locked in by some vendor, with a host that is placed in a country that might not so pleasant to do business with.

An email-app however, is usually not restricted to one host. You can tell it which email-provider you want to use, and that can be anywhere in the world. Don't like gmail? Then use another provider, or ultimately, host an email server yourself.

The same applies to the messenger app Matrix. It is not restricted to one host. There are hundreds of hosts. I self-host a Matrix instance in Iceland, and just like with e-mail, it will communicate fine with any other instance where my message partner has chosen to subscribe to.

Anyway, I urge you, do not advocate "European services" because that is just moving the problem from one place to another. To really solve the problem, we have just to go back to how the internet was intended, and only promote decentralized services that can be anywhere on the world (you pick one you like), with an open standard, so there can be multiple clients using the very same service.

I self host my email server. I use Thunderbird on my laptop to access it, and K-9 mail on my GrapheneOS phone. I'm not bound to just one provider, nor to just one client app.

Are you kidding that you don't know about Matrix?

No, because Matrix is not European, but decentralized. It is everywhere, or nowhere, depending on your viewpoint.

What do you mean with "non cloud software"? I host a lot of decentralized services which have nothing to do with a cloud. They just run on a VPS, which can be anywhere in the world. Currently, I have my services hosted in Iceland, because I like their privacy policies, but I can just plant them in any other country if I wish to.

Photoshop? Have you tried Gimp? Many professionals who abandoned Microsoft and have chosen for Linux claim that Gimp can do everything Photoshop can do, often even better.

I think we should stop looking for geographic/political bound services. The internet was designed to be used without that.

We have email servers all over the world, and various email clients that can make use of it. There is no owner of the email service, no country the host of the email service, no one who has power over the email service. Email is nor "American" nor "European".

The danger we are now facing is that we will get "European services", owned by Europeans, yet again locking you in, this time in a European scheme. Europe is not the holy grail however, they have grifters, nationalists, ultra rights, Trump-wannabee's too. We will just swap one problem for another.

The keyword here is decentralized. That is what we should be looking for. Not American, not European, but truly decentralized.
Nobody in ultimate power, nobody who can make it politically lean to one side or the other, nobody who can pull the plug, or sell it to a billionaire. This is how the internet was intended, and how many of the initial services (email, name servers) were designed. This path was abandoned when big tech wanted to commercialize services, but it doesn't have to be like this.

For most services, if not all, decentralized alternatives exists.

Good starting points to learn more about this can be, among others, found here:
https://redecentralize.org/

The good news is that it is now clear for everyone that the Trump admin has gone fully Orwellian.

Even for most of the foolish supporters the videos speak for themselves.

And the Trump regime only differs from the Iran regime by the number of protesters they are killing, but Trump is hellbend to improve on that.

I think there is a tipping point here.