Non-US alternatives to digital services

[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.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I like they they only do email and calendar. It's best to not keep too many eggs in the same basket, and the pricing for Proton seems to discourage that.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

That's not bullying. Now, if we follow them around and reply to all their comments pointing them out as someone who doesn't follow links, maybe we'll get somewhere.

[oldfart@lemm.ee]

Hetzner's S3 is immature, they just started beta last year, and are rough at the edges

[aliasaka@lemmy.world]

Bookshop.org just recently added ebooks, and I believe they have a UK store, for anyone trying to buy ebooks in a more ethical way. It allows you to select a local bookstore of your choosing and support them when you purchase books. They take a small fee to cover their warehousing and shipping I think, but pass along a lot of the profit (80%) to the local bookstore. They’re a certified b corp and their bylaws say they can’t sell to a major retailer (eg amazon).

[hagelslager@feddit.nl]

It is encrypted: https://keepass.info/features.html

[hagelslager@feddit.nl]

Thank you for your explanation!

I exclusively log in on my phones or computers, so the devices which have the copies of the database. (With a backup to an external server under my control.)

[designated_fridge@lemmy.world]

Especially a password vault... Imagine your server going down while you are away from home and suddenly you're locked out of everything.