Non-US alternatives to digital services

[thisismyname@lemm.ee]

"Who cares if I helped fund the Nazi party, I got good value out of it!"

I'm not saying Proton are Nazis. I'm not saying the CEO is a Nazi. However, when someone shows you their true colours, believe them. He has a positive view of Trump, a known racist, rapist, and con-man. Just because the product is good doesn't mean it's okay to pay for it when you know that money helps to pay a Trump fan.

This is the worldwide web, there are many alternatives.

[mojomcjojo@lemmy.world]

Looking for android app alternatives

[taladar@sh.itjust.works]

Hetzner support is usually quite good, something I can't say of the (albeit much more limited) experiences with OVH.

[dragomus@lemmy.world]

Not just that, but frankly for a company like Proton it's prudent to "cry along with the wolves, lest you get killed" ...

As long as Proton's products still stand on their own in the light of the Trump regime I don't think it is useful at all to torch the company because of remarks of its ceo now that Trump is in office...

Ofcourse one can frown and be miffed but there are far worse companies out there that everyone uses, and people shrug off direct comments of anyone on the board of directors.

[jomusic@lemmy.ml]

Check out https://f-droid.org/en/

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Has the CEO explicitly mentioned he supports Nazis ?

I am already ahead of you & do have an alternative & it's called DisRoot
Somewhere along the line, you'll have to behave rationally.

[jackattack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Adding to this, pipepipe (for YouTube) on f droid is amazing. Not sure where it's based but they do great work.

[thisismyname@lemm.ee]

Nazis don't tend to explicitly state their support of Nazis. Even they know it's taboo.

I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

It doesn't walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass
imprisonments, transportations, war and
persecution."

• Michael Rosen

[philpo@feddit.org]

Hetzner is rock solid in my experience (and I run multiple server with them both for private and business use).
I really can't complain.

I have my S3 backups at Ionos these days, they are also fairly large, only marginally more expensive and so far it's working well.
Their cloud/VPS service (the proper one,not the consumer one) is also decent and offers a few (rarely needed) options that Hetzner doesn't have.

[philpo@feddit.org]

Posteo is another alternative for Mail that a lot of people overlook.(And far more "real privacy" than fucking Proton)

Bitwarden sadly still is a US company and while it hosts in EU as well, some might not think this is enough. In that case Vaultwarden can be selfhosted easily.

It is not that much work to actually get rid of most possibly unreliable US services,but it's far more work to get other people to switch as not all services are interoperable yet....

[superkret@feddit.org]

The irony of this community being hosted on feddit.uk

[kryptonnerd@slrpnk.net]

Wait why's it ironic? The UK is in Europe

[scutiger@lemmy.world]

They don't do all of what Proton does, but for email Hushmail is run out of Vancouver. The free account is quite limited in terms of space though, but it's free.

[saik0shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com]

The person doesn't understand the difference between Europe and European Union.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Good point

[jomusic@lemmy.ml]

Good points. I do believe Bitwarden is open-source though, so it can probably be forked off into a version that doesn't host data in the US.

[hagelslager@feddit.nl]

Question: why would you store passwords with an external service?

I have a local database synched with SyncThing between phones and computers and an external copy on a server.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Sometimes I need a password when I don't have my devices with me, and logging into the Bitwarden web vault is super convenient. Also, everything is encrypted on the client, and the client is FOSS, so there's very little risk.

You can also host your own Bitwarden server, or use an independent alternative (Vaultwarden).

Bitwarden provides a lot of convenience without much compromise.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

You can always self-host it as well.

[philpo@feddit.org]

And your local database is encrypted?

Vaultwarden is selfhosted and audited.

Besides: Not everyone wants to selfhost and not everyone should self host.