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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Canadian is okay too. Enjoy pornhub.

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

So does anyone have a list of cc European alternatives to US big tech?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 38 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Uhhhhh, Big Tech can and does also exist in Europe, Blaze. We need people switching to FOSS and non-profit software, but switching from American proprietary software to European proprietary software as a stopgap at least plausibly makes things somewhat better – owing to better regulations.

[–] Blaze@europe.pub 30 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, indeed. Ideal would be FOSS, but if people can already stop using the US Big Tech that's still something.

Like people leaving Twitter for Bluesky

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

The alternative for Tw!ter is Mastodon. Bsky's business model is based on growth, it will be sold for billions to the highest bidder once there are sufficient subscribers locked in.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't Bluesky still US big tech?

[–] Blaze@feddit.nl 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Airowird@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

Yet Musk manages to limbo underneath.

Oh, who am I kidding, he couldn't hit the bar doing his feeble attempt at a jumping jack.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)
[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 hours ago

Still, it's run by a large American tech company and has a federation model that makes self-hosting and true decentralization somewhere between difficult and impossible.

[–] mitram2@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

Not fully open source AFAIK.