Thanks to Orangy and Nobrain and their giant fuckery, the promotion of European alternatives has resulted in a tech stack I like better than anything I had before. Speaking of silver linings.
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What are your favorite #European tech tools?
Why choose European?
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Check out our in-depth guide for more European products 
https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products
I'm offering free privacy consulting to any project that aims at building a privacy-minded, responsible, open source, and European-Union-based alternative to some U.S. big tech oligopolist's service.
It's time to act, and I will gladly do what I can to help! So please just text me if you're interested!
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #technology #BuyEuropean #EuropeanTech
Given global developments, European businesses and individuals face a choice: continue relying on US technologies or gain greater data control and sovereignty.
We are happy that @mailbox_org has been listed as a leading European alternative by european-alternatives.eu.
Discover the benefits of our email solution: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
For our second #FollowFriday here (we forgot it last week), we wanted to recommend European search engines 
that have accounts here on Mastodon. 
So we tried to find on Mastodon the European companies listed on this post:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114174129661206035
But unfortunately, very few of them are present on Mastodon. 
We believe that those companies who have chosen to join the Fediverse deserve our attention, even if we have not yet used their services.
By receiving their news in our feeds, we might be inspired to explore their services and be informed about their developments.
So we suggest following these 5 accounts to show your support and witness their growth as it unfolds. 
@MetaGer 
(2.2k followers) - Congrats for having their own instance! 
@StartpageSearch 
(4k followers)
@Mojeek 
(3.3k followers)
@Swisscows 
(69 followers)
There is also the Open Web Search account: @openwebsearcheu. While they are not a company, they are a coalition of European research and computing centers that promotes Europe's independence in web search. If you'd like to be updated about Europe's digital sovereignty and search engine markets, follow them too!
Do you know any other European search engine that deserves a follow? Let us know! 
Vivaldi SocialAll Europeans 🇪🇺 (@ueeu@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image
The Search Engine Map
by @Mojeek@mastodon.social
The map is interactive, so you can click on each circle to find out more about the different search engines.
We'd love to know when the map was made, as some of the info looks out of date, but unfortunately we couldn't find that information. And the repo on GitHub no longer exists!
European search engines listed:
Mojeek 🇬🇧
Oscobo 🇬🇧
Entireweb 🇸🇪
Metager 🇩🇪
Ecosia 🇩🇪
Lilo 🇫🇷
Qwant 🇫🇷
eTools.ch 🇨🇭
Swisscows 🇨🇭
ZapMeta 🇳🇱
Startpage 🇳🇱
https://www.searchenginemap.com/
#SearchEngine #europeanalternatives
OVHcloud CEO calls on companies to anticipate discontinuity risk with European alternatives
OVHcloud is a French 
cloud service provider positioning itself as a reliable, sovereign, European alternative to US cloud hyperscalers.
The company's CEO, Benjamin Revcolevschi, emphasizes the importance of sovereignty and the need for a Plan B in case of a shutdown.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/interview/ovhcloud-ceo-calls-on-companies-to-anticipate-discontinuity-risk-with-european-alternatives/
#EuropeanTech #sovereignty #europeanalternatives #BuyFromEU #OVH
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@sponkae Some months ago I wrote this story about #EuropeanTech including DeepL for translations, Toggl for time management, Fairphone as a smartphone, Murena as a degoogled operating system, and others:
https://europeanperspective.news/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen-online/
The European Perspective · How to be a free European citizen online - The European PerspectiveEuropean alternatives to liberate your technology!
There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives
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Jonah Aragon
As American Big Tech companies continue to flout EU regulations, and the US Government cuts off critical defense technology to Ukraine, there is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
I wrote this latest @privacyguides article to highlight some of the many privacy-respecting, European tools that can replace the tech you use every day: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
European Tech Leaders Urge Digital EU Sovereignty In Letter To European Commission
#AI #Europe #EUCommission #EuropeanTech #EUPolicy #EuroStack #TechInvestment #DigitalInfrastructure
Just switched my company's S3 bucket storage from Backblaze to Hetzner 
Moving to #EuropeanTech to ensure #GDPR compliance, and as a bonus our new solution is running on 100% green energy 
www.hetzner.comObject StorageScalable object storage, S3-compatible and ideal for growing data volumes. Secure and flexible for efficient data storage.
NEW: The #EuroStack report proposes a €300 billion Sovereign Tech Fund to boost Europe's digital independence. A comprehensive plan covering chips, AI, and cloud infrastructure to reduce EU's tech dependence.
Our analysis, written by @jankrewer, explores the opportunities and challenges ahead: https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurostack-a-blueprint-for-europes-digital-future/
NEW POST: Public funding alone can’t build a European Amazon. Challenges like scale, market dynamics, consumer preferences, and innovation investment make it unlikely. #Tech #Ecommerce #EuropeanTech #AntiTrust #TechFunding #MarketCompetition #PublicPolicy https://www.netopia.eu/why-no-amount-of-public-money-will-buy-a-euro-amazon/
Netopia · Why No Amount of Public Money Will Buy a Euro-Amazon - NetopiaIt is a pain point for the European self-image of invention and progress that the internet skyscrapers are not from our continent. We invented the world wide web at CERN, no? How come we are behind in this race? And more importantly, how can we catch up? A fellow panellist at an event earlier this […]
I will support any project that aims at building a European, privacy-focused (and ideally open-sourced) alternative to some Big Tech oligopolist‘s services with free privacy consulting.
It‘s time for change and I‘d be happy to contribute what I can and what I‘m good at!
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#privacy #PrivacyMatters #DataProtection #GDPR #BigTech #EuropeanBusiness #EuropeanTech
The largest company in the Netherlands threatens to leave the country in protest against anti-migration policies.
ASML is the "only one in the world that builds machines for the most advanced semiconductors"
"It is now Europe's most valuable tech company, a growth that would not have been possible without its many foreign skilled workers."
Migration=Value.
From The European Correspondent
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=ASML:-Im-too-big-for-you
The European CorrespondentRead European Journalism now! — The European CorrespondentThe European Correspondent is the place where you read about the climate crisis, migration, digitisation and much more – with an European angle!
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@eunews Something I miss in the nine-point plan proposed by Germany and the Baltics is support for the development of European tech.
It's as if they want the EU to maximise the advantages of using someone else's software.
Let's promote EU native software as well.
This could include the European cloud, rather than having Amazon operate EU-only clouds.
How to be a free European citizen online
Surrounded by American Big Tech, Europe counters with:
- Legislative action against their abuses (#DMA, #DSA)
- #EuropeanTech brings better products
From the catalogue of @european_alternatives here are 5 tools for a more free, European experience:
@protonmail@mastodon.social
@Mastodon
DeepL
Toggl
IntelliJ IDEA
Cherry on top: an ethical phone (@WeAreFairphone) with a de-googled operating system (by @e_mydata)
Full article on:
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen
The European Perspective · How to be a free European citizen online