22 pointsby yawa_me_worhta day ago7 comments
  • Rounin14 hours ago
    There are a couple of subreddits related to this. Perhaps you will find them useful: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/ https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
  • perilunar6 hours ago
    For social there's Mastadon. Plenty of EU servers.
  • DamonHDa day ago
    I am also reducing my reliance on the US a little, financially also.

    Technically:

    Have you looked at Fairphone? I've been using a couple lastig many many years now.

    I self-host email, DNS, and a few other few services.

    Do not use any part of Meta, and moved from Twitter to Mastodon/Fediverse, at least in part hosted in the EU.

    • yawa_me_worhta day ago
      Thank you, I did not know about Fairphone - I will give it a closer look. It looks interesting.

      Honestly, sel-hosting email, DNS, etc. seems perhaps too “advanced” for me - I am not sure I would be able to do it without causing more problems than I solve.

      I am resigned to the fact that I cannot be completely independent, protected from surveillance by any state, etc. At this point, I am just looking for ways to prevent catastrophic scenarios, such as Trump blocking (or threatening to block) Europeans' access to American clouds and the like.

  • FlxMgdnza day ago
    For user authentication there is at least one European alternative to Clerk, and that’s Hanko (I am the founder).

    Granted, Hanko Cloud is still running on AWS (Frankfurt), but we’re working on alternative EU data location options right now.

  • lawn19 hours ago
    > Gmail - this will be hard (two decades of emails). Any advice?

    Proton Mail or Fastmail.

    Do yourself a favor and setup an email address on a domain you own, so it's easier to switch providers if you need to.

    • microtonal16 hours ago
      I have used Fastmail for well over a decade, but I am planning to move away. Even though they are an aussie company, their main servers are in the US (Philly IIRC). I'll probably switch to Proton, since we also recently moved our family cloud storage there.
  • elbcia day ago
    > "How would you decouple from the US?"

    Depends who's "you": if you are China you just stop answering the US calls, if you are EU you print out "Subsistence agriculture" from wikipedia ;)

    And about "What do/would you do in my place?" - I would take a second look at those sometimes ~50% East Europeans that keep popping up in opinion pools saying the Russian occupation was better that EU - maybe they are not just crazy as the MSM paints them to be ;)

    PS Linux is also US with over 95% of merges from corporations

  • 15 hours ago
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