Useful list of European alternatives to BigTech
https://proton.me/blog/european-tech-alternativesOpen linkView original on feddit.nlhttps://proton.me/blog/european-tech-alternativesOpen linkView original on feddit.nlhttps://proton.me/blog/european-tech-alternativesOpen linkView original on feddit.nl
They mentioned Lemmy, Peertube, Organic Maps, Friendica, /e/ os, Sailfish, Linux Mint, Codeberg, Ecosia, Librewolf, Waterfox, Mastodon, Matrix and Blender!
They have 100m users, this is a massive shoutout!
All excellent recommendations too. Hats off to Proton!
It’s good to see they still have it!
I think we can safely assume that this Blog post was not run by their ceo and simply created by someone at Proton who thought it was a good idea
Good list!
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Thanks for letting me know!
take all my eggs out of one basket to put them all into another?
There are plenty of alternatives as stated in the article.
but not for the services they are providing
Are there any federated email providers then?
Email is a federated protocol.
at the host level yes, but not at the user level
What is that even supposed to mean?
Yes it is, there are different people using email?
What I meant is: you cannot switch a specific email from one provider to another. Only option is for you to change your email address.
Compare that to say mobile phone numbers: there you have the option to keep your number when switching providers.
Portability of email is what's missing.
edit: typo
You totally can. Get your own domain and combine it with whichever email provider you like.
right, I forgot to mention this option. Indeed a possibility
it requies some technical knowledge and is not something many people do, probably less than 1%
compare that to phone number portability is available automatically to everyone (perhaps dependent on juristriction)
Email is THE federated system that is widespread in its use. Hosting a mail server at a host you trust or hosting it yourself has always been possible.