Im the owner of a small startup and I am working only with Linux and Nextcloud (and so are my 4 employees) - it’s doable and it’s a great feeling!
How do you handle email?
We have our own mailserver hosted with our provider.
EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission’s general war on encryption in the name of “safety”.
You’re seeing that because it’s above the table. I think other large countries are simply doing it under the table. I think the NSA/CIA basically own Microsoft and Google encryption whenever they want.
A good rule is: If you don’t want it read, don’t store it on someone else’s servers with someone else’s encryption keys.
We know about the NSA backdoor into every is tech company. We should assume the eu has the same deals in place.
How did the EU manage to keep their back doors secret where the USA didn’t?
How long was the US backdoor secret for?
Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.
Let me introduce you to bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/
I don’t yet use it, but I read a few of the blogs. Very RSS feed reader friendly and it’s simple without excess crap.
Hosted on substack 😂
You simply can’t get around LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube, Medium, Substack and so on if you want to stay connected.
“Can’t”. 🤦♂️
LinkedIn connects you with fuck all. It’s all just LLM posts on there, it’s ridiculous.
Unless of course your content is original and you want to foster the alternatives instead of further cementing the problematic platforms.
Sure, the choice is rather ideological than economical, but not working on the transition (like using all platforms in parallel in order to someday fade away from the problematic ones) is just lazy and half arsed.
At some point you have to ask who you are staying connected to
Seriously how damn hard is it for an IT enthusiast to host their own blog.
… Proton is still big tech
According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).
What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they “huge tech”?
I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :
- Not using proton pass while bitwarden works like a charm
- Sticking to a custom domain for my mail address to ease a future migration
They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
They’re based in Switzerland, but def still big tech
Switzerland
Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt’ish than US ?! …but anyway; Then he is ready for the next step; Go 100% open source, foss and distributed. Savings are 100% and he won’t support the rich unts - neither in the US nor in the EU = good for everybody…
Because 1) EU laws defend the customers a lot more and 2) US companies have already so much power and money, they can fuck over you easier, and you don’t have easier alternatives, or at least some people pretend you don’t
Because of the US Cloud Act. Try compare that to GDPR.
