Non-US alternatives to digital services
Non-US alternatives to digital services
From a practical standpoint, the country that hosts many digital services is undergoing rapid political change. For awareness of non-US alternatives, check out:
Looking for android app alternatives
Check out https://f-droid.org/en/
A good post to mention [email protected].
PeerTube seems fine for a YT alternative (only because it's pretty much either it or Odysee, that's what happens when you have an effective monopoly on user-generated content like YT does, and PeerTube IMO needs to take off sooner rather than later given how ridiculous YT's censorship has gotten lately), and then of course Lemmy (this platform) is looking really good so far as a Reddit alternative and I've only been on it for a day now, ditto for Pixelfed as an Instagram alternative.
And then of course there's Mastodon for a Twitter/Facebook alternative.
Also, Matrix seems fine for a Discord alternative, but moderation is all over the map.
Moderation is actually good on Matrix, also XMPP is a good alternative as well
https://makertube.net/ is the PeerTube instance that I've been using, and it's been great.
So proton is out these days right? Does anyone have thoughts on fastmail?
Tuta > Proton
The only downside is that Tuta doesn't provide an
.onionservice as Proton does (although they leak clearnet links left and right)... even though they apparently plan to.
Proton is still a great product.. easy to switch away from Google, especially if you don't have the time to self host or manage the complexity of 5 different services. I am aware of recent discussion, and have decided for myself that overreacting is not necessary, though that's up to you :)
Nowadays I half suspect any tech CEO to have some questionable mindset (to say the least). So it seems more important to me, what the company actually does. I hope everyone complaining about Proton now also does not use Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, Apple products, and the list goes on. Their CEOs are definitely a lot worse.
Fastmail is really, really nice.
I went over to purelymail, but it's in .us
It's not fancy encrypted like proton, but it's very affordable and straight forward to set up for your own domains.
Long time customer and super happy with Fastmail. Its a bit pricy but the service is great.
Yeah it could be argued that Fastmail is less private than alternatives, but they make a damn good service. Plus email shouldn’t be used for secure communication anyways.
I joined Fastmail almost a month ago and am really enjoying it, I especially like the integrated masked emails.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for an S3 provider? I'm looking at Hetzner and OVH.
Hetzner support is usually quite good, something I can't say of the (albeit much more limited) experiences with OVH.
I think OVH would be a good choice.