By gekko513
I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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It’s a process.
You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate
I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they don’t allow changing your address at all 😆
Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.
Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.
These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don't bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they're just slightly healthier or at least don't contain stuff that's actively bad for you, but they're still shit if that's all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.
JPEG over WEBP
I'll just buy using temu or AliExpress. European brands are too expensive in my third world country
Sad Element/Matrix noises q.q
Right! Tedomum.net is hosted in France 🥖
The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.
You make facebook sound a lot cooler than it actually is.
Why don't we(lemmy) get to suck the rigid cock of Satan? This is metal as fuck.
I think if you quit you'll find you're fine without it.
It's hard because all my old Livejournal friends are on there.
The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!
streaming: the right side, most of those are country specific.
This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.
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Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
Proton is a Swiss company, not EU
Sure, but it’s listed in the image on services.
Europe is a continent, EU is the European Union which has 27 member countries in Europe that are not Switzerland.
Europe != E.U.
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7-Eleven is 100% Japanese since 2005
Boycott 9-Eleven instead.
Pretty ironic that the website that created this, buy-european-made.eu, is actually promoting their Reddit community. They should really switch to an EU-hosted Lemmy instance, and also join Mastodon, just like european-alternatives.eu: @european_[email protected]
Check out my stack!
Any suggestions for alternatives?
Letterboxd is from New Zealand!
Whoops, it is fixed now
Looks really nice!
Though Lemmy.world is Dutch and I would suggest Qobuz as a better alternative to Spotify.
Thanks for info! Lemmy.world is updated. Why is Qobuz a better alternative to Spotify?
Spotify has paid $100m to Joe Rogan and regularly does tax-evasion.
The main admin is Dutch, but it is hosted in Finland, unless that has changed.
What's your experience with running /e/OS/ with banking apps and things like that? I've been considering a degoogled Android phone like Fairphone
I am American but don't want to be anymore
There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that's bad and really shouldn't be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn't. Please don't share it this further, it's absolutely shit.
So whats a better list, or what should be removed?
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Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.
This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.
It's basically filling the void the Xitter transition created. Either way, we got a massive boost in the decentralised space.
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This list seems a bit flawed, for instance on the travel line, Trivago is owned by Expedia in the US and Booking is headquartered in Amsterdam.
Also including BlueSky seems a little odd given the intent
Trivago isn't completely "owned" by Expedia, but Expedia does own a majority of the company stock. Its headquarters are in Germany, and 100% of its employees are there.
Booking.com is 100% owned by Priceline, a US company. They also have a long string of international controversies.
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